Applicability of constructed wetlands for water quality improvement in a tea estate catchment : the Pussellawa case study

• Main Authors: Ng, Wun Jern, Weerakoon, G. M. P. R., Jinadasa, K. B. S. N., Herath, G. B. B., Mowjood, M. I. M.
• Other Authors: School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Constructed Wetlands; Agriculture Catchment
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/87729; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/45543
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Water in agricultural catchments is prone to pollution from agricultural runoff containing nutrients and pesticides, and contamination from the human population working and residing therein. This study examined the quality of water in a drainage stream which runs through a congested network of ‘line...