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The Philippines has continued to lag behind other Southeast Asian nations in terms of the percentage of the population with access to sewerage services. As centralized wastewater treatment remains prohibitively expensive for all but the most densely populated regions, decentralized on-site wastewater technologies are now necessary to meet this need. The project seeks to demonstrate one such low cost wastewater treatment technology, which can be installed by local service providers using locally available cocopeat.

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This case study shows, how important it is to adopt a waste-water project to the the specific features of the project place, in this case to the available local materials, which helps to achieve an environmentally friendly method.

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