(1) French Associates Institute for Agriculture & Biotechnology of Drylands, The Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research (BIDR), Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, 84990 Midreshet Ben-Gurion, Israel;
Abstract:
Introduction
Increasing demand for water has stimulated efforts to treat wastewater for reuse in agriculture. Decentralized facilities
for wastewater treatment became popular as a solution to remote and small communities. These systems mimic natural wetlands,
cleaning wastewater as they flow through a complex of filter media, microbial fauna, and vegetation. The function of plants
in constructed wetlands (CWs) has not been fully elucidated yet.