Health Considerations in the Recycling of Water and use of Treated Wastewater in Agriculture and Other Non-Potable Purposes

Treated Wastewater in Agriculture: Use and Impacts on the Soil Environment and Crops

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 51-76

  Shuval, Hillel ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Disability adjusted life years (DALY) health of population or burden of disease, specific disease or risk factors; Disease transmission by wastewater irrigation; Health considerations and pathogenic microorganism control wastewater in agriculture; Health considerations in water recycling treated wastewater use in agriculture and non potable purposes; Highly restrictive reuse guidelines and standards impact; Illness associated with wastewater irrigation of crops eaten raw; Raw domestic wastewater pathogenic microorganisms, agents of bacterial, viral and protozoan diseases; Survival times of enteric pathogens in water, wastewater, soil and on crops; Wastewater use effects in agriculture London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM); World Bank and WHO extensive multidisciplinary study on health effects of wastewater irrigation

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EID: 84886012799     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444328561.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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