Living Machine® To Make European Debut - organic sewage disposal plant - Brief Article

Whole Earth, Summer, 2000 by Mks

Our friends at Ocean Arks International (www.oceanarks.org) are developing the first Living Machine wastewater treatment plant on the European continent. Part of a $70-million office and warehouse complex in Hungary, the system will utilize thousands of species of plants, bacteria, microorganisms, zooplankton, snails, clams, crabs, and fish in an enclosed, sunlit, managed environment to break down and digest organic pollutants in wastewater.

Architect Attila Bodnar of Organica Ecotechnologies, the firm installing the system, calls it "an arboretum that cleans wastewater." The system will be capable of treating 300 cubic meters of wastewater per day. Organica is also designing a wastewater treatment plant that could be built on a barge anchored on the Danube River.