Keeping freshwater clean starts at source. Essentially every toilet or kitchen sink is a spring within the catchment, flowing down to our percolation area or town sewer and on to our local river. The aim is to keep these springs as clean as possible; or at least to filter them if they get polluted by use within our homes. Many conventional sewage treatment methods offer excellent filtration properties, but can be expensive and energy intensive to implement and maintain. Nature Based Solutions such as reed beds, wetlands and willow systems can be used for treatment of domestic septic tank effluent…
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Article by Emma Hart for the Farmers Journal on farm-scale water measures: https://www.farmersjournal.ie/farm-programmes/footprint-farmers/wading-into-wetland-solutions-on-footprint-farms-784838
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Published first in the Council Journal (https://council.ie/galway-conference-shine-light-on-natural-and-constructed-wetlands/) on 22 July 2016 By Féidhlim Harty The recent international conference on natural and constructed wetlands in NUI-Galway hosted experts from across Ireland and elsewhere in Europe; and as far afield as Australia, Asia and North and South America. The conference was the first of its kind in Ireland to bring together speakers from natural wetland and peatland research as well as from the growing environmental engineering field of constructed wetlands and reed beds for wastewater treatment and water quality protection. We are lucky here in Ireland to have a rich diversity of natural…