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 (PALGER 2017)
Category: Water Resources
Duration: April 2019 and ends in December 2020
Objectives:
This project is conducted by WESI with partnership with ITT, Koln, Germany and NARC, Palestine, and financed by the German and the Palestinian Governments. The project started in April 2019 and ends in December 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.