20.500.12556/RUL-146368 Challenges and perspectives of nature-based wastewater treatment and reuse in rural areas of Central and Eastern Europe In Central and Eastern Europe, about one-third of the population lives in small settlements (<2000 PE). Since the current European Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive (91/271/EEC) does not clearly regulate the collection and treatment of wastewater from these settlements, countries solve the problem individually. Simple and robust technologies such as nature-based treatment systems could be the solution and are widely applied in many EU countries. In this paper, the status of wastewater collection, treatment, and reuse in rural areas of 14 countries in Central and Eastern Europe is presented together with the spread of different nature-based treatment systems. The results show that in the last decade, connection to wastewater treatment plants has increased from 9% to 19% of the total population in small settlements. The use of treated water is rarely applied. Sequencing batch reactors and other types of activated sludge systems predominate in treatment technologies. Nature-based treatment systems (mainly treatment wetlands) are used in all the countries studied. Their implementation is slowly increasing, hampered by lack of acceptance by authorities, lack of good case studies, and misdesigned or misoperated examples from the past. More awareness, formalized training on nature-based treatment systems, and supportive legislation are needed to promote sustainable sanitation solutions in small settlements. nature-based solutions sustainable sanitation treatment wetland small and individual treatment systems ecosystem service true false true Angleški jezik Ni določen Članek v reviji 2023-05-25 11:45:02 2023-05-25 11:45:02 2024-02-27 13:31:46 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2023 0 0 16 str. iss. 10, art. 8145 Vol. 15 2023 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno apc 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 628.179.2 2071-1050 10.3390/su15108145 153406723 Challenges_and_perspectives_of_nature-based_WW_treatment_and_reuse_in_CEE.pdf Challenges_and_perspectives_of_nature-based_WW_treatment_and_reuse_in_CEE.pdf 1 574FFB8ACB7928249152A772D5877DB0 6f37a8c1180746545567b224877460fc087de8979d78732f48ea6fc7a8dc5ec3 680021aa-fae1-11ed-a314-00155dcfd717 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=169542 https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/15/10/8145 1 89c7789b-fae0-11ed-a314-00155dcfd717 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=169541 Zdravstvena fakulteta Fakulteta za gradbeništvo in geodezijo 0 0 0