Advancing Reuse of Treated Wastewater in Palestine: A framework for enhancing sector governance, livelihoods, food security, and environmental ethics in the case of North West Bank (PALGER 2017)
Advancing Reuse of Treated Wastewater in Palestine: A Framework for Enhancing Sector Governance, Livelihoods, Food Security, and Environmental Ethics in the Case of North West Bank
Category: Water Resources
Duration: 01/01/2019 to 30/06/2020
The specific objectives are:
- To analyze/set the governance framework for reuse in Palestine as unconventional water resource, also for utilizing reuse as a mean for decreasing water conflicts, enhancing environmental ethics, empowerment and protection of vulnerable groups and supporting water conservation
- To determine the effect of reuse in Jenin project on:
- Soil, (background analysis heavy metals in soil before irrigation of treated wastewater is available by the applicant)
- Socio-environmental systems, as impact assessment
- Cropping patterns and need to shift to more profitable crops.
- To determine the effect of reuse on Farmers, animals, and human consumers, as a risk study
- To establish a platform for the Palestinian reuse sector as a whole through capacity building and dissemination of project results, and to conclude and develop an overall and replicable development framework as a model for the sector.