WATER PURIFICATION USING REED BED

In my design I have decided to provide clean water to the community by purifying the water from the exsisting water body on the site. I have been looking at various methods of water purification and the one that I found really intresting was using plants to clean the water.

Reed beds are natural habitats found in floodplains, waterlogged depressions and estuaries. Reed beds are part of a succession from young reed colonising open water or wet ground through a gradation of increasingly dry ground. As reed beds age, they build up a considerable litter layer which eventually rises above the water level, and ultimately provides opportunities for scrub or woodland invasion. Artificial reed beds are used as a method of removing pollutants from grey water.

<sup>http://www.ciwem.org/policy-and-international/current-topics/water-management/reed-bed-wastewater-treatment.aspx

The process of water purification is shown below. I intent to use this method for my design.</sup>