Cell Reports Sustainability (Aug 2024)

Empowering indigenous resilience with treatment wetlands

  • Muhammad Arslan,
  • Chelsea Benally,
  • Jochen A. Müller,
  • Muhammad Usman,
  • Jerry Hanna,
  • Mohamed Gamal El-Din

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 1, no. 8
p. 100149

Abstract

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Many Indigenous communities in Canada have little or no access to water treatment facilities. Treatment wetlands could offer a nature-based solution with localized and decentralized wastewater treatment. However, it is crucial that Indigenous ecological knowledge and cultural practices are integrated into the design, implementation, and management of treatment wetlands.