1st Edition

Wastewater Treatment by a Natural Wetland: the Nakivubo Swamp, Uganda

By Frank Kansiime, Nalubega Maimuna Copyright 1999
    330 Pages
    by CRC Press

    330 Pages
    by CRC Press

    Uganda's Nakivubo swamp has been receiving wastewater from Kampala for over 30 years and consists of a floating root mat. It's potential to remove nutrients and pathogens from wastewater in a sustainable way, while maintaining ecological quality and biodiversity, is investigated in this work.

    Introduction, Description of the Nakivubo Swamp, Water Balance and Hydrodynamics of the Nakivubo Swamp, Water Quality of the Nakivubo Swamp, Nutrient Transformations by Dominant Vegetation Types in the Nakivubo Swamp, Transport and Fate of Faecal Coliforms in the Nakivubo Swamp, Nitrification in the Nakivubo Swamp, Phosphorus Retention in the Sediments of the Nakivubo Swamp, Mass Balance of the Nakivubo Swamp, Socio-Economics of the Nakivubo Swamp, Summary and Conclusions.

    Biography

    Frank Kansiime (Author) , Maimuna Nalubega (Author)