A strategic plan for reuse of treated municipal wastewater for crop irrigation on the Island of Crete

Agricultural Water Management

Volumn 105, Issue , 2012, Pages 57-64

  Agrafioti, Evita ^a   Diamadopoulos, Evan ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Irrigation water requirements; Quality criteria; Reference evapotranspiration; Wastewater reuse

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL IRRIGATION; ALTERNATIVE WATER RESOURCE; CLIMATIC DATA; FRESH WATER; IRRIGATION WATER REQUIREMENTS; MUNICIPAL WASTEWATERS; QUALITY CRITERIA; QUANTITATIVE DATA; REFERENCE EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; STRATEGIC PLAN; TERTIARY TREATMENT; TREATED EFFLUENT; WASTEWATER PLANTS; WASTEWATER REUSE; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS; WATER REQUIREMENTS; WATER REUSE CRITERIA; WATER SHORTAGES;

CROPS; EFFLUENTS; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; IRRIGATION; LANDFORMS; STRATEGIC PLANNING; WASTEWATER RECLAMATION; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER RECYCLING; WATER SUPPLY; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

CROP PRODUCTION; DATA SET; DATABASE; EFFLUENT; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; EVERGREEN TREE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FRESHWATER; GIS; GUIDELINE; IRRIGATION SYSTEM; LEAFY VEGETABLE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECYCLING; SOFTWARE; STRATEGIC APPROACH; VINEYARD; VISUALIZATION; WASTEWATER; WATER RESOURCE; WATER TREATMENT;

AEGEAN ISLANDS; CRETE; GREECE;

LACTUCA;

EID: 84856976397     PISSN: 03783774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2012.01.002     Document Type: Article

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