Towns and cities are growing rapidly in most parts of the world. Increasing water consumption causes enormous challenges to water infrastructure planning.
Classical wastewater management is based on expensive sewer systems and large wastewater treatment plants. This approach is not ready for the 21st century’s challenges because it is expensive, inflexible and not suitable for water reuse.
Decentralized water management is increasingly considered the economic alternative to classical water management. Small-scale wastewater treatment plants for individual buildings or clusters of houses make long distance sewers and large centralized wastewater treatment plants redundant.
That is why more and more property developers, municipalities and public utilities make the decision to profit from the advantages of decentralized systems.
Treating wastewater close to where it is generated brings along a number of crucial advantages – first and foremost from an economical point of view.
The small unit size of decentralized systems allows for precise matching of growing wastewater capacity requirements. Less money is tied up in overbuilt capacity and project construction periods are shortened significantly.
Among all wastewater treatment technologies available today, natural systems have proven to be the frontrunner. Experts agree that constructed wetland technology is the most efficient wastewater treatment method currently available.
However, the large space requirement of constructed wetland technology has been limiting applicability. Until now, it was not possible to benefit from this powerful technology in built-up areas and suburban development projects.
We have decided to change this!