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In the last decade humanity has been facing two crucial problems concerning fresh water. The first is the lack of water because of the always growing water demand, which has tripled around the world over the last 40 years, the trend expected to be higher in the near future. The second is the environmental concern to stop waste water discharge into surface water prior to the removal of major pollutants.
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Kyritsis, S. (1996). Waste — Water Reuse. In: Pereira, L.S., Feddes, R.A., Gilley, J.R., Lesaffre, B. (eds) Sustainability of Irrigated Agriculture. NATO ASI Series, vol 312. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8700-6_25
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