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Globally, poor hygiene and sanitation contribute to more than 1,000
daily deaths from diarrhoeal diseases among children under the age
of 5, while two thirds of urban wastewaters are discharged without
treatment into lakes, rivers and coastal waters. Across Europe the
percentage of the population connected to wastewater treatment
plants varies from 14% to >99% with many reliant on unsuitable
decentralised sanitation systems or no wastewater treatment at all.
With less than a decade left to achieve the 2030 sanitation targets
as set out in the Sustainable Development Goals, there is an urgent
need to develop new treatment solutions that can be rapidly
deployed to meet the needs of growing urban and peri-urban
populations, together with under-served rural communities. This
book discusses decentralised wastewater treatment and the role of
nature-based solutions within the context of the twenty-partner
international INNOQUA project. INNOQUA set out to develop and
demonstrate a suite of modular, low cost, decentralised solutions
that use the combined capabilities of earthworms, bacteria,
Cladocera and micro-algae to deliver nature-based primary,
secondary and tertiary treatment - followed by UV disinfection.
Design and operation principles are outlined, together with
performance data and practical feedback from pilot and
demonstration facilities situated in eleven countries from Ecuador
to Scotland and India. Barriers and drivers towards more widespread
uptake of these technologies are also examined, alongside an
exploration of existing markets for nature-based sanitation in the
Global South.
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