New Environmental Education Strategies

This book is part of an effort to promote new environmental education strategies. For decades, the idea has been gaining momentum that the only possible way to address environmental conflicts is through environmental education. One of the most pressing of these is undoubtedly related to the treatment of wastewater and its subsequent reuse. Numerous technologies are currently available to carry out such treatment; however, not all of them are sufficiently sustainable from an environmental point of view. This book, and more specifically this chapter, which provides a relatively extensive description of the main existing biological purification systems, as well as the microbial communities responsible for it, is the first step that any Environmental Education programme must take, and which, in short, must be none other than to try to make society aware of and understand this environmental problem. This is the only way to encourage the active participation of citizens in order to build a new model of sustainable society.