Chandrashekhar Parab , Aakrut V. Patel , Kunwar D. Yadav , Vimalkumar Prajapati
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Water demand is rising with population growth, making greywater reuse vital for sustainability. Constructed wetlands (CWs) utilize natural processes to treat greywater, but the role of water hyacinths and media in enhancing treatment efficiency remains unclear. This study assessed two CWs with water hyacinth: one with gravel media (WM) and one without (WOM). Over 90 days, the CW-WM showed significant removal efficiencies: 91.59 % for turbidity, 55.74 % for COD, 79.96 % for BOD, 75.97 % for phosphate, and 30.67 % for ammonia over CW-WOM. An artificial neural network (ANN) was employed to predict BOD and COD using input parameters like pH, EC, turbidity, TS, and TDS. The BOD model achieved an R-value of 0.8635 and MSE of 0.0182, while the COD model reached an R-value of 0.9041 and MSE of 0.0058. When tested on unknown data, the BOD model performed well (R = 0.9244), but the COD model's lower generalization (R = 0.7149) suggests room for improvement.