Safe Use of Wastewater in Agriculture From Concept to Implementation
This book offers a broad and global level description of the current status of wastewater use in agriculture and then brings the readers to various places in the MENA Region and Europe to explain how some countries and regions have addressed the challenge
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Safe Use of Wastewater in Agriculture
Safe Use of Wastewater in Agriculture
Hiroshan Hettiarachchi Reza Ardakanian •
Editors
Safe Use of Wastewater in Agriculture From Concept to Implementation
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Editors Hiroshan Hettiarachchi United Nations University (UNU-FLORES) Dresden, Sachsen Germany
Reza Ardakanian United Nations University (UNU-FLORES) Dresden, Sachsen Germany
ISBN 978-3-319-74267-0 ISBN 978-3-319-74268-7 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74268-7
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Preface
Irrigation is perhaps the most prominent example that we have today to showcase the safe use potential of wastewater. Water scarcity and the cost of energy and fertilizers have driven millions of farmers and other entrepreneurs to make use of wastewater. On a global scale, over 20 million hectares of agricultural land is already irrigated using wastewater. Agriculture, a field that depended on fresh water for irrigation for thousands of years, now needs a more organized and more scientific structure to make use of this opportunity. In order to address the technical, institutional, and policy challenges of safe water reuse, developing countries and countries in transition need clear institutional arrangements and more skilled human resources, with a sound understanding of the opportunities and potential risks of wastewater use. To address above capacity development needs, a new initiative called “Safe Use of Wastewater in Agriculture” (SUWA) was launched in 2011 by the United Nations Water Decade Programme on Capacity Development (UNW-DPC) led by Reza Arda
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