Wastewater Reuse - Risk Assessment, Decision-Making and Environmental Security

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

   PDF

2. Introduction and Risk Assessment Methods: Environmental Hazard Impact

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

      PDF

   2. Effects of Mining Activities on Water around the Çanakkale Plain, Turkey

      • Alper Baba, O. Deniz, O. Gülen

      Pages 3-10

   3. Development of a Decision Support System for Wastewater Reuse in the Middle East

      • Joop L. G. de Schutter

      Pages 11-21

   4. Wastewater Treatment in the Mediterranean Countries

      • Claudia Wendland, Ismail Al Baz, Göksel Akcin, Gürdal Kanat, Ralf Otterpohl

      Pages 23-32

   5. Risk/Cost Analysis of Sustainable Management of Wastewater for Irrigation: Supply Chain Approach

      • Eugene Levner

      Pages 33-42

   6. Direct Osmosis Technique: New Approach to Wastewater Reuse in Uzbekistan

      • Renat R. Khaydarov, Rashid A. Khaydarov

      Pages 43-52

3. Wastewater Reuse—Case Studies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 53-53

      PDF

   2. Wastewater Management, Treatment, and Reuse in Israel

      • Saul Arlosoroff

      Pages 55-64

   3. Soil Aquifer Treatment Areas in Tunisia: Jerba Island

      • Makram Anane, Hamadi Kallali, Salah Jellali, Mohamed Ouessar

      Pages 65-72

   4. Wastewater Use in Jordan: An Introduction

      • Zein B. Nsheiwat

      Pages 73-79

   5. Municipal Water Reuse in Tucson, Arizona, USA

      • Sharon B. Megdal

      Pages 81-90

4. Current Risk Management Practices—Developed Countries

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 91-91

      PDF

   2. Dairy Wastewater Treatment with Effective Microorganisms and Duckweed for Pollutants and Pathogen Control

      • M. T. Rashid, J. West

      Pages 93-102

   3. Optimization of Treatment Train for Water Reuse Schemes in the Czech Republic

      • Petr Hlavinek, Jiri Kubik

      Pages 103-108

5. Risk Assessment/International Conflicts

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 109-109

      PDF

   2. Ranking of Ecological Risks Related to Wastewater Management

      • David Alcaide Lopez de Pablo

      Pages 111-120

   3. Risk Assessment of Wastewater Contaminated with Radionuclides Using Arabidopsis thaliana L. Plants

      • Namik M Rashydov, Valentina V. Berezhna, Nataliya K. Kutsokon

      Pages 121-130

   4. Multicriteria Decision-Making Tool for Optimal Water Resource Management

      • Konstantyn Atoyev

      Pages 131-144

   5. Risk-Based Decision Support of Water Resource Management Alternatives

      • Paul D. West, Timothy Trainor

      Pages 145-156

This North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) was devoted to Wastewater Reuse – Risk Assessment, Decision-Making and Environmental Security held in Istanbul, Turkey, at the Hotel Villa Suites, Taksim during October 12–16, 2006. More than 100 scientists had requested to parti- pate but only 63 could attend the meeting representing 20 countries—Azerbaijan, Canada, Czech Republic, Egypt, Greece, Italy, Israel, Jordan, Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania, Portugal, Romania, Spain, The Netherlands, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United States of America, and Uzbekistan. 48 papers and 10 posters were presented; only 45 research papers were selected and put in this proceedings manual. Other papers, although they had good information, could not be included due to poor data, not related to the topic or failed to meet the deadline. You may feel some difficulty in understanding some of the papers due to the fact that they were initially written in presenter’s home language and then translated into English by nonscientific people, who have very little knowledge or interest in putting correct scientific terms. Financial support came from the NATO Program for Security through Science, Public Diplomacy Division and sponsored by the Society of Risk Analysis (SRA). Twelve (12) individual participants contributed towards their travel and two (2) for their living expenses.

• development
• life-cycle assessment
• microorganism
• organization
• wastewater
• wastewater management
• wastewater treatment
• water quality and water pollution
• water industry and water technology

• College of Engineering, Idaho State University, Pocatello, USA

  Mohammed K. Zaidi

Policies and ethics