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Urban Wastewater Reuse—A Common Reality

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Exponential growth of population, rapid industrialisation and urbanisation, higher cultivation intensities, and poor water management practices over the past century has made freshwater availability a limiting factor in agricultural development (Ray and Gul 1999; Dupont 2003).

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Notes

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    An augment of drinking water supplies by highly treated reclaimed water. This includes direct and indirect potable water reuse.

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    Treated effluent suitable for an intended water reuse application and is synonymous with ‘reused water’.

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    Water that flows out of treatment plants.

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    EU Council Directive for community action in water policy-2000/60/EC of October 23, 2000.

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Keremane, G. (2017). Urban Wastewater Reuse—A Common Reality. In: Governance of Urban Wastewater Reuse for Agriculture. SpringerBriefs in Water Science and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55056-5_2

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