Sustainable Sewage Water Management

This book provides the necessary information, knowledge and insights into various experiences of treatment and management of wastewater in the urban and semi-urban areas through the introduction of natural and low-cost methods. It covers comparative cost analyses of the various conventional sewage treatment methods, the biochemical processes involved in the duckweed-fish based treatment method and the engineering aspects of the treatment through the example of Project WATER. Successful community involvement and issues of sustainability in general, which are the other important aspects of the wastewater recycling and building the environment through institutions, have been amply described in the book. The contents of the book can be of immense help and interest to various civil societies, students, scholars, and public administration experts to improve their work in civil and urban governance. The present book provides deep insights into urban wastewater management problems and their alternatives. The book would serve the needs of sectors dealing with the complexity of social, technical and managerial aspects of urban governance. It provides an in-depth understanding on collaborative arrangements as an institutional approach to wastewater treatment and sustainability of such initiatives by various stakeholders in the long run. It would be of great interest to researchers, students, public and civil institutions and public administration departments dealing with recycling of wastewater with simple technology. The salient features of the book are: • It focuses on the comparative cost advantage of the suggested model to the traditional mechanical methods of sewage treatment. • It provides the biological process adopted, the engineering aspects, community involvement, resource recovery mechanisms and issues of governance for long-term sustainability. • It covers the sustainable model of sewage water management that has been conceived, developed, desi