About 80% of all global wastewater is released untreated into the environment, which leads to a deterioration in water quality. Objectives 6.2 and 6.3 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aim to provide universal access to sanitation while improving water quality by halving the proportion of untreated wastewater and increasing its safe reuse. Constructed Wetlands (CWs), a nature-based solution (NbS), can contribute to these goals. There is currently little knowledge about the contribution of CWs to the global amount of treated wastewater. That’s why the researchers Prof. Jutta Papenbrock and Dr. Ariel Turcios from the Institute of Botany, Leibniz University Hannover (LUH) in collaboration with the l3S research center have created a central online platform for constructed wetlands worldwide called CWetlands – the Constructed Wetlands Knowledge Platform, and further developed with the help of the consortium...more

Access to the CWetlands Platform