Visitors’ Perception Regarding Floating Treatment Wetlands in an Urban Green Space: Functionality and Emotional Values

Floating treatment wetlands (FTW) are artificial structures used for water quality improvement through the hydroponic growth of certain macrophytes and their rhizospheric bacteria, with capacity pollutant removal. Through application face-to-face questionnaires, our study aimed to analyze visitors’ perception structure, functionality, benefits FTW installed in two ponds one green space Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico, emotional experience that these could incite those same visitors. Visitors identified plant component as most noticeable one, perceived filtering/cleaning principal function, reported positive negative emotions proportion. The perceptions varied according age, school level, occupation. Positive regarding were linked maintenance ponds. Visitors’ awareness composition function was associated presence informative signs. understanding about can be integrated into management programs successful participative cleaning bodies urban settings. Along people’s participation, municipality city must improve important given its repercussions on perception.