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Mechanism of Earthworms in wastewater treatment

  Water , as we all know, is a terrible thing to waste. But for businesses that go through a lot of water—dairy farmers, wineries and sewage plants—vast quantities of wastewater is an unfortunate by-product. Earthworms promote the growth of beneficial decomposer bacteria in waste water & acts as an aerator, grinder, crusher, chemical degrader & biological stimulator. The 2 processes, that is microbial process & vermin process simultaneously work in the vermi-filtration system. Earthworm body works as a biofilter which widens the microbial metabolism by increasing their population. It also grinds, aerate, crush, degrade the chemicals and act as biological stimulator. Microbial and Vermi processes will simultaneously work by treating the wastewater using earthworms. Effluent resulted will be extremely rich in nutrition and can be reused as earthworms are versatile waste water eaters and decomposers. Earthworms have over 600 million years of experience as “ecosystem engineers”