The present environmental changes have prompted for a movement of natural treatment systems in mitigating the conventional “Hard Engineered” water treatment systems for municipal, industry, agroindustry and storm-water discharges that cannot be funded by most villages and industries. Thailand strongly supports this global environmental movement as it has consequently seen the acceleration of the creation of policies, measures, and plans in managing environmental issues, conservation, and environmental degradation to the use of natural systems and values their ecosystem services.

For centuries the wetland natural treatment system is one of the natural ecological systems which does not only provide the benefit on biodiversity preservation but also towards human uses. It is known to be one of the highly efficient wastewater treatment especially municipal wastewater. Providing the suitable conditions for wetland development both naturally, semi-natural and anthropogenic to the rich biodiversity which can serve the full function of ecosystem from the birth of species until their end of life.

The living wetland system can sustain the ecological processes for decades, where popularized in tropical climates, the migrated avian has used wetlands and their surrounding areas to provides the suitable resting place for birds, protecting both inland and coastal systems offering the crucial habitat reserves and buffer zones to enhance biodiversity. Adapting among Thai communities, the wetland system has benefited and addressed amongst today’s current environmental related issues, where the system provides improved humans and social well-being to communities especially ones living in the adjacent area.

Co-hosting of this coming conference is Chaipattana Foundation which The King’s Royally Initiated Laem Phak Bia Research and Development Project where the project has been adapting the wetland systems in treating domestic wastewater from 40,000 households. Moreover, the project’s wetlands also provided ecological services in terms of community well-being and enrichment of biodiversity, where communities settling nearby can get access to