"Wetlands: where nature thrives. Let's preserve them for future generations!"

WWGI

Wastewater Gardens International

Wastewater Gardens International aims to address the global challenges associated with wastewater management. We focus on three key issues: the contamination of drinking and freshwater supplies in countries lacking sewage treatment, leading to high disease-rate, poverty and death, the contamination of coastal areas leading to rapid eutrophication, rendering those key areas for fish reproduction no longer available and finally the waste of resources, high cost, fragility and environmental impact that ‘conventional’ sewage treatment plants represent.

Abundant research demonstrates the immense negative consequences of sewage contamination on human societies, economies and overall ecosystems health, causing massive overall environmental degradation to freshwater resource, water bodies and ocean coastal areas. To tackle these problems, WWGI promotes the adoption of constructed wetlands systems as a means to recycle organic nutrients, return water into the natural biospheric cycle and reduce water resource demands by creating additional (or feeding existing) vegetation zones. Wetlands are also increasingly being identified as important carbon and nutrient sinks, contributing to mitigate climate change.

We aim to design high-biodiversity sewage treatment plants and to empower people through our over 40 years+ of accumulated research/implementation on ‘all’ continents via training workshops. By involving local communities when possible in the implementation and expansion of constructed wetlands (Wastewater Gardens – WWG) systems, we reduce reliance on imported equipment, save resources, and minimize energy consumption. Each WWG that we have designed and implemented is depicted as a transformative space that utilizes human waste to generate flowers, fruits, and other usable products, while safeguarding human health and local ecosystems.

For more in-depth information or educational resources, please consult our root website https://www.wastewatergardens.net.

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Our team is internationally committed to spreading constructed wetland ecotechnology into the areas most in need: countries with little sanitation infrastructure, semi-desert/desert and tropical climates, ocean and/or waterways coastlines and lands where water conservation and reutilization is essential.

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Eden In Iraq Wastewater Garden project

Construction was begun on February 6th, 2023 for implementation of Phase 1 of the project. This phase will include a bridge to the project site, earth moving to created an initial treatment wetland with native Iraqi marsh vegetation of reeds. When this is ready, a pipe will be connected from the “switch plant” where sewage from houses in el Chibaish,…

Puerto Rico Wastewater Garden system

Puerto Rico Wastewater Garden system is thriving after 20 years of operation During December 2022, Dr. Mark Nelson visited and worked at the Las Casas de la Selva sustainablerainforest timber project near Patillas, Puerto Rico, a project to which the Institute of Ecotechnicsconsults. The Wastewater Garden system which was installed in 2002 with support from the Puerto Rican Department of…

Construction of Eden in Iraq begins

The Eden In Iraq Wastewater Garden Project [under the umbrella of the Institute of Ecotechics, a 501c3 entity and Nature Iraq NGO] is pleased to announce that construction has begun of its wastewater garden in the Mesopotamian marshes of southern Iraq. The Wastewater Garden Project is a humanitarian water remediation project, expressed through wastewater, garden design and environmental art, providing…

Eden in Iraq – News release

The success of the first phase of the recently completed Eden in Iraq Wastewater Garden has inspired Iraq Minister of Water Resources Aun to immediately set in motion 8 more constructed wetlands throughout Iraq, working with our international team. The Eden In Iraq Wastewater Garden Project (under the umbrella of the Institute of Ecotechnics, a 501C3 entity and Nature Iraq…

Ojo de Agua in Jalisco

Ojo de Agua in Jalisco, Mexico to install Wastewater Gardens for its sewage treatment In November, 2022, the Sunrise Rotary Club of Chapala, Jalisco, Mexico signed an agreement with Wastewater Gardens International for the design of a Wastewater Gardens system to treat and reuse the wastewater from Ojo de Agua, a nearby village. The design is being done by Dr.…

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