Una visión ecosistémica de los procesos de depuración de aguas residuales y compostage de biosólidos como herramienta de divulgación del conocimiento.

Abstract

The management of effluents and organic waste has different ways of addressing it, either by individual systems at the domestic level or in a community-based way in treatment plants. The latter, need a comprehensive management that resolves two aspects: the first, the purification of the water and the second, the treatment of muds (biosolids) generated as a by-product of the process. The scientific development around the purification of effluents by means of suspension cultures and the subsequent treatment of the biosolids, It is a sample of the experience and knowledge accumulated around the development of biotechnology for environmental protection. The treatment technique in both cases, reduce microbial ecosystems, with controlled physical, chemical and biological parameters. This allows the development of communities of organisms that will do the work of returning scarce resources such as water and soil nutrients to the environment.