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Sustainability and Optimisation of Treatment and Use of Wastewater in Agriculture

Country(ies)	Cyprus Greece Israel Morocco Palestinian Authority Tunisia
Area(s) and focus(es) of the project	Water Management (projects) Waste water treatment systems Collection, treatment, disposal and re-use of waste water Reduction of irrigation inputs Data collection, analysis, monitoring Capacity building Networking, participation and partnership building
Project scale	sub regional
Tools	Investigating natural vegetation from the Mediterranean region; Epuvalisation (low cost tertiary treatment technique); Long Term Storage in maturation ponds; Low cost technologies (irrigation and wastewater purification); Selection of crops; Storage pools management; Recycle and non-recycle units; Optimisation of the use of nitrogen in the wastewater; Wastewater treatment systems and indicators: - Free Water System (FWS) - Olive Oil Wastewater (OOW) - Biological Oxygen Demand (BOD5) - Total Suspended Solid (TSS); Infiltration-percolation system ; Sub-irrigation systems; Studies on the impact of wastewater on soil structure
Timeframe	10/01/1998 - 09/30/2002
Implementing organisation(s)	Agricultural University of Athens National Foundation for Agricultural Research Institute of Iraklio Institut National de Recherche en Génie Rural, Eaux et Forêt Institut Agronomique et Vétérinaire Hassan II Agricultural Research Institute The Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Al-Quds University of Jerusalem
Contact	Prof. D. Xanthoulis Faculté Universitaire des Sciences Agronomiques Département Agronomie, Economie et Développement Unité d’Hydraulique Agricole (Génie Rural) 2, Passage des Déportés B- 5030 Gembloux Belgium Tel:++ 32/(0)81.62.21.86 Fax: ++ 32 / (0)81.62.21.95 E-mail : xanthoulis.d@fsagx.ac.be
Donor(s)	4th Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities
Links	http://www.medaqua.org/forum/Wastewater_ ... - http://www.xanthi.ilsp.gr/kemes/view_dat ... - http://www.cordis.lu/data/PROJ_INCO/ACTI ... - http://epuvaleau.fsagx.ac.be/SITEWEB2.ht ...
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