Adapting to socioeconomic, operational and environmental challenges of dairy farm effluent purification in Uruguay through the use of surface flow constructed wetlands

The 3600 dairy farms in south-western Uruguay, with about 750,000 cows in 2008, play an important economic role. Only about 200 of the farms have a sewage treatment system, since no legal regulations for the disposal of effluents exist, the cost of construction is high and neither direct benefits no...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Water practice and technology 2011-09, Vol.6 (3)
Hauptverfasser:	Avellán, C. T., Rousseau, D. P. L., Lens, P. N. L.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Acceptance tests Agricultural wastes Agriculture Aquatic plants Artificial wetlands Biodiversity Catchment area Construction Construction costs Dairy farms Effluent standards Effluents Eutrophication Farmers Farms Incentives Indigenous plants Lagoons Legislation Low cost Macrophytes Planting Plants (botany) Pond construction Ponds Purification Rivers Scirpus americanus Sewage Sewage treatment Sewage treatment plants Sewer systems Socioeconomic factors Surface flow Technicians Wastewater treatment Water purification Water quality Water quality standards Wetlands
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