Constructed wetlands for the treatment of harmful algal blooms: a multidisciplinary approach.

TY - ABST

T1 - Constructed wetlands for the treatment of harmful algal blooms: a multidisciplinary approach.

AU - Martinez I Quer, Alba

AU - Thyssen, Lasse Ahrenkiel

AU - Larsson, Yrsa

AU - Johansen, Anders

AU - Arias, Carlos Alberto

AU - Carvalho, Pedro N

PY - 2024

Y1 - 2024

N2 - Climate change will increase the severity and frequency of droughts, eutrophication episodes and harmful algal blooms events in our water bodies. Consequently, water-stressed areas that rely on the withdrawal of surface water for crop irrigation will face water shortages in the upcoming future. Eco-technologies such as constructed wetlands (CWs), offer a promising solution for different future climate challenges. We propose CWs as a potential solution for remediating harmful algal blooms in water bodies. Nevertheless, there are many variables in this treatment process of cyanotoxins that remain unknown. Therefore, several different experiments are set up to disclose the degradation metabolic pathways of the cyanotoxins, together with the analysis of the degrading microbial structure existing in the substrate. The different promising hypotheses of the mechanistic understanding are been proposed and the first results will be shown in the conference.

AB - Climate change will increase the severity and frequency of droughts, eutrophication episodes and harmful algal blooms events in our water bodies. Consequently, water-stressed areas that rely on the withdrawal of surface water for crop irrigation will face water shortages in the upcoming future. Eco-technologies such as constructed wetlands (CWs), offer a promising solution for different future climate challenges. We propose CWs as a potential solution for remediating harmful algal blooms in water bodies. Nevertheless, there are many variables in this treatment process of cyanotoxins that remain unknown. Therefore, several different experiments are set up to disclose the degradation metabolic pathways of the cyanotoxins, together with the analysis of the degrading microbial structure existing in the substrate. The different promising hypotheses of the mechanistic understanding are been proposed and the first results will be shown in the conference.

M3 - Conference abstract for conference

T2 - IWA World Water Congress and Exhibition

Y2 - 11 September 2022 through 15 September 2022

ER -