Karim Khalaf. EL- Jumaily; Mustafa Wajdi Jalal
Abstract
Reusing of treated wastewater effluent, which is normally discharged to the environment from municipal waste water treatment plants, is receiving an increasing attention as a reliable ...
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Reusing of treated wastewater effluent, which is normally discharged to the environment from municipal waste water treatment plants, is receiving an increasing attention as a reliable water resource. The volume of this resource may be worthily taken into consideration in the planning and implementations of water resources projects. Currently most of the Middle East countries have developed their own experience in this field, however, among these countries Iraq has nothing to do in this field, a case which make one feels sorrowful. Therefore, in this work, such techniques have been analytically discussed, and handy systems of drip irrigation methods for using treated waste water in Iraq have been proposed. Moreover, in this paper, a pioneer research study has been carried out as a leading effort on this promising field of recycling wastewater usage in Iraq. For the time being, it has been detected that about 1 million cubic meters in the city of Baghdad only is disposed every day to Tigris river after getting secondary treatment, It has been shown that in 2020 the amount of wastewater in the city of Baghdad may increased to as much as (4388264) m3/day, which (if treated) may irrigate as much as (43882)hectare of industrial crops, or to be used for planting a green belt of trees surrounding the whole city of Baghdad, this could help in damping the dust storms which became a predominant phenomena in the last few years. It is also shown that the concept of decentralization sewage treatment plants and separation of gray water in source may be the most dare steps to be taken by the authorities to comply with the new era of water reuse management in Iraq.
