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A constructed wetland is a complex set up of majorly four components that are wastewater, substrate, vegetation, and microorganisms. Plants play an essential job in this complex set up as it gives surfaces and a reasonable situation aimed at bacteriological development and purification. During the entry of the wastewater through an even subsurface stream wetland, it is a contact of vigorous, anoxic, and anaerobic zones systems. The part of wastewater is purified by the natural reduction process by physical and chemical means (Cooper et al., 1996). Horizontal flow (HF) type CW can actively remove the organic pollutants from the wastewater. The amount of oxygen transfer in the complex set up is limited; however, HF wetlands remove the nitrates from the wastewater. The phosphorus removal in the constructed wetlands occurs in the six stages (Watson et al., 1989).
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Sudarsan, J.S., Jain, M.S. (2022). Mass Balance Study on Domestic Wastewater Treatment using Constructed Wetlands. In: Haq, I., Kalamdhad, A.S., Dash, S. (eds) Environmental Degradation: Monitoring, Assessment and Treatment Technologies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94148-2_18
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