Image:
Objective:
Green wall treating greywater from four apparttments and being reused in toilet flushing. It uses a horizontal flow green wall coupled with an ozonation.
Start/end date:
Actions:
Monitoring treatment performance
Monitoring biomass production
Monitoring social acceptance
Organisations:
Catalan Institute for Water Research
Agència de l'Habitatge de Catalunya
Global goals:
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6. Clean water and sanitation
NBS goals:
- Enhancing sustainable urbanization
- Developing climate change adaptation
- Improving risk management and resilience
- Urban regeneration through nature-based solutions
NBS benefits:
- Developing climate change adaptation; improving risk management and resilience
- Reduce drought risk
- Reduce load to sewer system
- Reduce risk of damages from drought
- Developing climate change mitigation
- Carbon sequestration and storage
- More energy efficient buildings
- Increase Biodiversity
- Enhancing sustainable urbanisation
- Changing image of the urban environment
- Creation of green jobs relating to construction & maintenance of NBS
- Increase awareness of NBS solution & their effectiveness and co benefits
- Increase stakeholder awareness & knowledge about NBS
- Reduce costs for water treatments