| has gloss | eng: Living Machine is a trademark and brand name for a form of biological wastewater treatment designed to mimic the cleansing functions of wetlands developed and marketed by Worrell Water Technologies, LC in Charlottesville, Va. The trademark Living Machine is owned by Dharma Group, LC, the parent company of Worrell Water Technologies. They are intensive bioremediation systems that can also produce beneficial by-products such as edible and ornamental plants, and fish. Aquatic and wetland plants, bacteria, algae, protozoa, plankton, snails, clams, fish and other organisms are used in the system to provide specific cleansing or trophic functions. In temperate climates, the system of tanks, pipes and filters is housed in a greenhouse to raise the temperature, and thus the rate of biological activity. |
