Wastewater recycling in Greece: The case of Thessaloniki

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 2876-2892

  Ilias, Andreas ^a   Panoras, Athanasios ^a   Angelakis, Andreas ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS   (Greece)

^b Hellenic Union of Municipal Enterprises for Water Supply and Sewage   (Greece)

Author keywords

Agricultural water quality criteria; Wastewater in agriculture, water use in agriculture; Wastewater reuse; Water recycling; Water reuse in greece

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ISLAND; PROJECT DESIGN; RECYCLING; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WASTEWATER;

GREECE;

EID: 84902987054     PISSN: 20711050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su6052876     Document Type: Review

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