Agricultural drainage water

The work on the STR started with a survey among the Wetland Systems SG members (about 140 SG members took part in the survey). In February 2018, a three-day workshop with approximately 20 participants was organised at BOKU University Vienna in Austria to kick off the STR work. During the workshop the main structure of the book and responsibilities for chapters were defined. The main outcomes were that the textbook should be the basis of the STR, and that the content of the STR should include useful information for practitioners and researchers aiming to design treatment wetlands. After the IWA Wetland Systems conference in October 2018 in Valencia, Spain, a meeting on the STR was organised in which the status of the work was reviewed and responsibilities for the remaining work were refined. The editors had the task to compile the new Scientific and Technical Report on Wetland Technology. The STR includes contributions from more than 50 wetland colleagues from academia and practice. The editors are very thankful for all the enthusiasm and effort put into this work and we hope that the STR will be a useful addition to the treatment wetland literature. We hope you will enjoy this Scientific and Technical Report on Wetland Technology.