Wastewater use in Agriculture: Review of Impacts and Methodological Issues in Valuing Impacts

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Type:	Working Paper
Author:	Hussain, Intizar; Raschid-Sally, Liqa; Hanjra, Munir A.; Marikar, Fuard; Van Der Hoek, Wim
Date:	2002
Agency:	International Water Management Institute, Colombo, Sri Lanka
Series:	IWMI Working Paper, no. 37
URI:	https://hdl.handle.net/10535/4846
Sector:	Agriculture Water Resource & Irrigation
Region:	Middle East & South Asia
Subject(s):	water pollution irrigation methodology valuation agriculture
Abstract:	"The objective of this paper is to provide a review of the characteristics of wastewater used for irrigation, and the reasoning behind the international guidelines presently used in regulating wastewater reuse for agriculture.This paper presents various systems of wastewater treatment available and discusses their benefits and shortcomings.Finally, the paper provides the review of environmental valuation techniques for analyzing impacts of wastewater uses in agriculture, and suggest a framework for application of some of these techniques. This framework will be applied to a developing country case study (Faisalabad area in Pakistan), in the ongoing IWMI research program."

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