Greywater Treatment and Reuse in MENA: A Method that works
Arab Environmental Monitor
July 14, 2007
Batir Wardham
In Arab countries with scarce water resources and shortage of money and technologies for desalination, the option of greywater reuse and treatment is gaining a lot of potential. Despite problems that appeared in small-scale applications of greywater resuse in households the technologies are getting better and cheaper. The main element will be for the local community itself to adopt the technologies even when the donors leave.
The IDRC's WadiMENA initiative has developed a very useful technical bulliten on greywater treatment and reuse in MENA countries. This bulletin introduces greywater as a Water Demand Management tool that has the potential to contribute to alleviating water scarcity in the dry countires of the MENA region. The bulletin captures local knowledge on greywater treatment and reuse in MENA, gained as a result of research projects funded and coordinated by IDRC. It is intended to highlight the future courses of action requisite to balance between the increasing challenges of water scarcity, food security and sustainable development. The bulletin also sheds light on the Aqaba declaration that came out as a result of the greywater experts meeting held back in February 2007. The bulletin is written by Karma El-Fadl, and edited by Doaa Arafa, Lorra Thompson and Mark Redwood
For every water management practitioner in the field this guide will be handy.
The English guide is here: http://www.idrc.ca/uploads/user-S/11836240891Greywater_Treatme_Eng._03061.pdf