WASTEWATER REUSE IN MIDDLE EAST COUNTRIES - A REVIEW OF PROSPECTS AND CHALLENGES

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dc.contributor.authorBahadir, Mufit
dc.contributor.authorAydin, Mehmet Emin
dc.contributor.authorAydin, Senar
dc.contributor.authorBeduk, Fatma
dc.contributor.authorBatarseh, Mufeed
dc.date.accessioned2024-02-23T14:48:54Z
dc.date.available2024-02-23T14:48:54Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.departmentNEÜen_US
dc.description.abstractThe Middle East Region is one of the driest regions in the world. Water shortage in most of the region has led to wastewater reuse practices. While this source includes valuable nutrients essential for plants, it also contains various environmental contaminants, which can threat both human health and agricultural sustainability. Uncontrolled applications for long term result in soil deterioration, contaminated agricultural products, and sanitary problems. In many Middle East Countries, wastewater treatment plants are lacking. Domestic wastewaters are sometimes contaminated with uncontrolled industrial discharges. Wastewater quality and soil safety for wastewater application are often neglected. For sustainable use of wastewater in the region, there is a serious need for regulations, monitoring of wastewater, soil and product quality, and public awareness about possible adverse effects of untreated wastewater. In this review, the authors aimed to give an overview about the state-of-the-art of wastewater reuse in particular for irrigation purposes in Turkey and the Arab Countries in the Middle East. The different origins of wastewater discharge that are manifold in the Middle East Region, e.g. domestic, touristic, industrial, and agricultural drainage, pollutants identified in the wastewater, and R&D efforts made for a pollution inventory, removal of pollutants through wastewater treatment before use, and the fate and behaviour of the residual pollutants in agro-ecosystems during irrigation with wastewater are reported.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipGerman Academic Exchange Service DAADen_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThis paper is an outcome of the Regional Network Middle East of the global collaborative project EXCEED - Excellence Centre for Development Cooperation - Sustainable Water Management in Developing Countries www.exceed.tu-braunschweig.de consisting of 35 universities and research centres from 18 countries on 4 continents. The authors highly acknowledge the support of German Academic Exchange Service DAAD while performing some of the research projects reported above and organizing the Regional Workshop on Wastewater Treatment and Reuse, June 3-6, 2013, Konya, Turkey.en_US
dc.identifier.endpage1305en_US
dc.identifier.issn1018-4619
dc.identifier.issn1610-2304
dc.identifier.issue5en_US
dc.identifier.startpage1285en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12452/17876
dc.identifier.volume25en_US
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000378967600001en_US
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ4en_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Scienceen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherParlar Scientific Publications (P S P)en_US
dc.relation.ispartofFresenius Environmental Bulletinen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessen_US
dc.subjectIrrigationen_US
dc.subjectMiddle East Countriesen_US
dc.subjectWastewater Reuseen_US
dc.subjectWater Scarcityen_US
dc.titleWASTEWATER REUSE IN MIDDLE EAST COUNTRIES - A REVIEW OF PROSPECTS AND CHALLENGESen_US
dc.typeReview Articleen_US

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