ASBN SustainabiliTEA #32 // Constructed Floating Wetlands as a Nature-Based Water Treatment Solution

Please join us for another ASBN SustainabiliTEA - a time to enjoy some tea (or morning beverage of your choice) whilst having a yarn about a diversity of topics around sustainable and regenerative built environments.

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Learn how to use Constructed Floating Wetlands to remove nutrients and clean up water bodies, including dams, ponds, stormwater, effluent ponds and rivers, as a nature-based positive treatment solution, part of a circular economy.

The Constructed Floating Wetland (CFW) modules link together using special keys to form stable, robust, UV stabilised islands containing baskets containing plants where the roots grow down into the water bodies, form biofilms, and suck up the nutrients. The plants are periodically harvested, sequestering carbon and removing the nutrients.

//Our Speaker

Kim has an extensive background in water and wastewater treatment, having worked both in sales, marketing, distribution and general management for water treatment companies, as well as in operations, maintenance and management of major treatment plants. He is familiar with virtually all treatment technologies.

After managing the 5th largest water filtration plant in the world, Kim lent his hand to developing a Strategic Business Plan for a startup company and stayed on as CEO to grow the company. Clarity Aquatic offers a nature-based water and wastewater treatment solution that uses Constructed Floating Wetlands (CFWs) to remove nutrients from water bodies, using plants.

We look forward to hearing Kim's insights, whilst sharing space with you all virtually over a soothing cuppa.

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Acknowledgement of Country

Adelaide Sustainable Building Network acknowledges the Kaurna People of the Adelaide Plains, Tarntanya, where our work is most often undertaken. We also acknowledge the Peramangk People of the Mt Lofty Ranges, the Ngarrindjeri of Fleurieu, Coorong and lower Murray regions and the Ngadjuri of the Barossa and Mid-North as the traditional custodians of the land where we live and work. We pay our respects to all Elders, past and present, of all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nations.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander spirituality recognises the connectedness of people and culture with earth, sky and water country. The land is alive with traces of Dreaming ancestors. Always was, always will be, Aboriginal land