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Considerations for Grey Wastewater Reuse in Isolated Desert (Bedouins) Communities
Lutfi Abo-Gama1, Amit Gross2, Zeev Ronen2,
Natalya Bondarenko2, Ludmila Katz2, and Gideon Oron1,3
1) The environmental Engineering Unit, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva,
2) Hydrology and Microbiology Department, The Institute for desert Research, Kiryat Sde-Boker
2) Environment Water Resources, The Institute for desert Research, Kiryat Sde-Boker The Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva
3) The Grand Water Institute, Technion
Corresponding author, E-Mail: gidi
Abstract
The nomad tribes in arid zones used in the past to move from one site to the other searching for food for the cattle , sheep and goats herds. However, the gradual change in standards of life forced them to settle in permanent and isolated places. The need for water also enhanced issues of wastewater disposal. Currently, it is common to discard the raw wastewater to the close surroundings or to septic tanks.
The shortage of water forces even the more permanent nomad tribes to have a new look and treatment of the domestic wastewater for possible reuse it for diverse purposes. The separation of the gray wastewater from the rest in the household system is even a better option to use water efficiently and in the future also to have an improved clean environment. The options of reclaiming the gray wastewater in an isolated Bedouin community in the desert area of Israel are presented. |
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