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Our commitment
Wastewater Gardens International is committed to spreading WWG technology into
the areas most in need: tropical so-called developing countries, ocean
coastlines, waterways and semi-desert/desert lands where water conservation
and reutilization is essential.
Depending on project location and dimension, we work with a team of people
and at times organizations around the world who join us on a per-project
basis through their experience with constructed wetlands, while we look
forward to a training program that enables people to maintain and build
their own Wastewater Gardens®.
We work with our own construction team or with the builder chosen by our
Client.
Our Expertise
Among the WWG team ....
Dr. Mark Nelson Ph. D.
Nelson is Chairman and CEO of the Institute of Ecotechnics and Director of the Birdwood Downs project in West Australia since 1978. He was the former Director of Space and Environmental Applications for Space Biospheres Ventures (1985-94), and a member of the 8-person closure team in BIOSPHERE 2, 1991-1993, where he managed the constructed wetland used for wastewater treatment in the facility. He completed his doctorate in Environmental Engineering Sciences at the University of Florida, with a dissertation on subsurface flow wetlands in tropical coastal environments. Mark has worked for several decades in closed ecological system research, ecological engineering, the restoration of damaged ecosystems, desert agriculture, orchardry and wastewater recycling. He was a summa cum laude graduate from Dartmouth College, Phi Beta Kappa and is a member of Phi Kappa Phi, the honors engineering society.
Florence Cattin
Ms Cattin has worked in the field of international and cross-cultural
project management and coordination for the past 10 years where she focused
extensively in bringing together representatives of successful grassroots
social and ecological initiatives with official development programs headed
by funding, institutional and/or governmental bodies. She is the co. founder
and president of K-PITAL Production, an NGO focused on raising awareness
on eco-citizenship through communication campaigns and the application/integration
of environmental solutions. She is a member of the network "Collectif
Jo'burg 2002" which presented and follows-up on French civil society's
stance and contribution to environmental issues at the Johannesburg RIO
+10 Summit on Sustainable Development. She started her studies in Oceanography
and went on with an individual major in Human and Natural Sciences at
the University of San-Francisco.
Dr. Andrzej Czech
Dr. Andrzej Czech was a driving force in the establishment of the Carpathian
Heritage Society in April 1999. It developed into a constructive organisation,
which actively participates in the protection and rebuilding (rejuvenation)
of the natural and cultural environment of the Carpathian Mountains. Sustainable
development is the foundation of its activities as a chance for present
and future. A Ph.D. graduate of Jagellonian University in Krakow, his
dissertation research centered on the reintroduction of the beaver to
the areas. Andrzej, working in conjunction with Wastewater Gardens International,
established the first pilot-project demonstrations of the technology in
Poland at the Magursky National Park University field station and in the
Tri-Lateral Biosphere Reserve in the Carpathians near Lutowiska.
Mark van Thillo
Mr. Van Thillo is currently a Director and the Chief Operations Officer of the Biosphere Foundation and its division the Planetary Coral Reef Foundation, as well as a Director and Vice-President of Technical Systems for the Global Ecotechnics Corporation, a company in charge of designing with the Biosphere Foundation a 1,200 sq. ft. modular closed ecological system for advanced studies pertaining to a manned Mars-based habitat. Former co. Captain for the two year BIOSPHERE 2 experiment where he was responsible for the maintenance and operation of all technical equipment, he was also in charge of all construction quality control for the Biosphere 2 project (1986-1991) and from 1993-1994, Executive Manager of Technical Systems for Space Biospheres Ventures, the company managing BIOSPHERE 2. He is an on-site WWG construction supervisor when project size calls for his expertise.
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