Valorization and Awareness of the Territory through Wastewater Treatment Process: The Project Life+Rewetland

Bernardino Quattrociocchi, F. Mercuri, and L. Pasqualino

Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

Abstract: The paper is aimed to review the action carried out on different sites of the Agro-Pontino, implemented within the framework of LIFE+REWETLAND Project, trying to analyze the link between the exploitation of the territory through wastewater treatment processes and awareness of the same territory by the local citizens. Within the paper, an analysis of the environmental and socio-economic drivers characterizing the surrounding context is provided. Subsequently, an examination of the pilot projects carried out in the different sites considered was implemented. Also, after trying to involve people in these activities, the contribution of Rewetland project towards the awareness of the territory has been studied. Rewetland project has been crucial in order to understand the current complexity of the Pontine territory, from which all the implemented activities within the project have been defined. Within the project, in addition to the construction of four phytoremediation pilot plants, a strategic planning document (Environmental Renewal Programme) has been developed.

This report sets out all of the measures that can be adopted in different sectors (urban, agricultural, industrial) and the dissemination and awareness activities that can be achieved, also through various web tools. The originality of the study consist to connect the activities in order to create an integrated system towards the awareness and the enhancement, by the local stakeholder, of the area of the province of Latina.

Key words: wastewater treatment processes, territory, exploitation, awareness