Wastewater Treatment in Lithuania: How It Looks Like Today

At present, Lithuania, Latvia,  and Estonia, Baltic countries with almost 6 million inhabitants, deal with wastewater treatment as much as the pioneers in the decentralized sewage treatment plants, Germany or France.

 As Aušra Mažeikienė and Rasa Vaiškūnaitė, the authors of the original research "Analysis and Assessment of Biological Treatment Processes in a Small-Scale Wastewater Treatment Plant" claim:  "In recent years the variety of different types of small-scale household wastewater treatment plants produced in Lithuania and abroad has increased considerably within the country. 

With stricter requirements for wastewater treatment, small-scale individual wastewater treatment plants can provide a financially attractive alternative to a server connection in locations far from the existing sewer network. Systems operating under the basis of active sludge are considered advanced, and their producers declare high levels of wastewater treatment not only according to BOD but also under biogenic materials."

In order to help WWTP manufacturers particularly in Lithuania, in February 2019, BIBUS Baltics and BONNEL TECHNOLOGIE realized a special knowledge-exchange tour highlighting the importance of WWTP monitoring and its effective operation. During the three-day tour of the Baltic countries, both partners visited four local WWTP producers of continuous plants. 

Jan Bonn, the managing partner of the Czech manufacturer of electronics for sewage treatment, points out: "We had a unique opportunity to meet wastewater professionals in Lithuania, who implement decentralized sewage treatment plants for communities and households not connected to sewage systems. Since the local manufacturers have to face ever stricter legislation here, they were very interested to learn more about our Sequetrol® starter controllers which can assist the owner and the service staff and provide better cleaning results, especially when it comes to denitrification. We have also introduced the idea of "smart home" with our free, smart GSM monitoring application Aquavisor and our IoT product range. 

SUMMARY:
Smart decentralized wastewater treatment may be an attractive, cost-efficient and ecologically friendly improvement for small communities and individual homes in the Lithuanian countryside.
 

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