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Water 2010, 2, 155-169; doi:10.3390/w2020155 OPEN ACCESS water ISSN 2073-4441 /journal/water Article Comparison of Three Systems for Biological Greywater Treatment ´ ´ Lucıa Hernandez Leal , Hardy Temmink , Grietje Zeeman and Cees J. N. Buisman Wetsus, Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Water Technology, P.O. Box 1113, 8900CC, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands Sub-department Environmental Technology, Wageningen University, P.O. Box 8129, 6700EV Wageningen, The Netherlands Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: lucia.hernandez@wetsus.nl; Tel.: +31-582843000; Fax: +31-582843001. Received: 3 February 2010; in revised form: 14 April 2010 / Accepted: 15 April 2010 / Published: 22 April 2010 Abstract: Greywater consists of household wastewater excluding toilet discharges. Three systems were compared for the biological treatment of greywater at a similar hydraulic retention time of approximately 12–13 hours. These systems were aerobic treatment in a sequencing batch reactor, anaerobic treatment in an up-flow anaerobic blanket reactor and combined anaerobic-aerobic treatment (up-flow anaerobic blanket reactor + sequencing batch reactor). Aerobic conditions resulted in a COD removal of 90%, which was significantly higher than 51% removal by anaerobic treatment. The low removal in the anaerobic reactor may have been caused by high concentration o