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A Review on Reed Bed System as a Potential Decentralized Wastewater Treatment Practice

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To develop sustainable societies, wastewater treatment and management are two most significant challenges the world is facing today. A large amount of potable water is being wasted regularly from various sources, including household, in the form of wastewater. Reed bed systems (RBSs) are cost-effective engineered constructed wetlands (CWs) which can be used as an eco-friendly technology for treatment of different wastewaters. Several factors are crucial for effective performance of this sustainable technology, which include design parameters of RBSs, media materials, hydraulic regime, inhabiting microorganisms, biofilms and functionalized plants. The biotic community (especially, microbial assemblages) dwelling RBSs can vary considerably in different environment and wastewater compositions. Thus, RBSs can be an excellent option for decentralized wastewater treatment with water reuse potentiality in the space constrained areas. This review presents recent developments of RBSs and its potential for using as decentralized cost-effective wastewater treatment processes.

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S.C. is thankful to Director, DRL (DRDO), Assam, India. The authors apologize for the many colleagues who are not referenced in this work due to space limitations.

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  2. Bankura Christian College, Bankura, West Bengal, India

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  3. Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC), Indira Paryavaran Bhavan, New Delhi, India

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Chatterjee, S., Mitra, A., Gupta, S.K., Gupta, D.K. (2019). A Review on Reed Bed System as a Potential Decentralized Wastewater Treatment Practice. In: Sathishkumar, R., Kumar, S., Hema, J., Baskar, V. (eds) Advances in Plant Transgenics: Methods and Applications. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9624-3_11

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