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Jordan faces chronic water scarcity due to the very limited water resources and increasing water demand. Also, increasing the energy cost of wastewater treatment raises the need to think about sustainable energy-water-environment nexus in a dry climate. Moreover, wastewater treatment near to the generation place and reusing it in the same area is needed. This decreases the energy demand, saves the cost, and protects the environment. In addition, the innovations in decentralized wastewater technologies in Jordan aiming not only to treat the municipal wastewater but also to recycle water, energy, and nutrients again. Laboratory-analysis shows extremely high treatment efficiency that can be achieved by the studied technologies to reduce BOD5 to 98.8%, COD to 96.5% and achieve high nitrification rate and reduce the TSS, NO3, TN, and E. Coli parameters, to meet the Jordanian standards for reuse.
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The author would like to thank the water laboratory of al Balqa Applied University and Master Students at the agriculture department for their efforts during the field and laboratory work. Also many thanks to the SMART project at Fuhies location (funded by UFZ-Germany) for providing on-site laboratory and material support for physicochemical and biological wastewater analysis.
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Shareef, N. (2022). Sustainable Wastewater Treatment Technologies for Appropriate Agriculture Use in Jordan. In: Heggy, E., Bermudez, V., Vermeersch, M. (eds) Sustainable Energy-Water-Environment Nexus in Deserts. Advances in Science, Technology & Innovation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76081-6_17
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