All in all, a year on from the tentatively hopeful momentum from the 2021 Environment Act and media attention granted onto the state of England’s rivers and waterways, the landscape remains somewhat lacklustre and bleak (and dare we say dehydrated!).
By harnessing natural wetland processes innovative approaches have greatly increased the contaminant removal efficiencies of ICWs for sustainably treating wastewater. ICWs applied to many different applications, from reducing the concentration BOD and nutrients in sewage and agricultural runoff to cleaning fuel contamination from road drainage systems.