Although 20% of Brazilian territory is covered by wetlands, wetland inventories are still incomplete. In 1993, Brazil signed the Ramsar Convention but a coherent national policy for the sustainable management and protection ...

The first studies with constructed wetlands undertaken in Brazil were the result of observations made from the Amazon flood plains. The first attempt to use this capacity to change the quality of the water, in the sense ...

The growth in production and consequently in the use of pharmaceuticals and personal care products over the years has made domestic effluents generated both in large cities and in small cities loaded with these compounds, ...