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Wastewater Reuse

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Wastewater reuse has a long history throughout the world. Indications of reuse of wastewater go back in time at least 5,000 years to the Minoan civilization of ancient Greece (Asano and Levine, Water science and technology, 30:1–14, 1996; Vignesnaran and Sundaravadivel, Recycle and reuse of domestic wastewater, Oxford, UK: Eolss Publishers, 2004). The major historic and current use of wastewater is irrigation, both agricultural and non-agricultural (e.g., landscape, parks, golf courses). Irrigation is a preferred use of reclaimed water (treated sewage effluent), because it does not require water of the highest quality and wastewater contains nutrients needed for crops. Wastewater may also be recycled for industrial uses and, less commonly, to augment the potable water supply

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Maliva, R., Missimer, T. (2012). Wastewater Reuse. In: Arid Lands Water Evaluation and Management. Environmental Science and Engineering(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29104-3_29

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