Informations et ressources scientifiques
sur le développement des zones arides et semi-arides

Titre : Wastewater reuse in countries with high water stress - challenges and opportunities

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Date : 1 January 2019–31 December 2022

Identifiant : 2018-03476_VR

Présentation
Water scarcity is a serious global problem that affects the world’s poorest the most. This project addresses major challenges relating to wastewater reuse from a multidisciplinary perspective. Decision makers’ and the general public’s widespread negative attitude towards use of reclaimed water is one that also makes implementation of water treatment techniques a much wider task than developing and validating efficient treatment techniques and applications.

The overall goal is to provide knowledge that contributes to the development of an efficient wastewater treatment methodology with low environmental impact and resilient use of local resources. The aims are to (i) develop biochar adsorbents suitable for wastewater with highly complex contamination profiles by e.g. activation and functionalization, (ii) evaluate the generation of hazardous compounds during thermal destruction of used adsorbents, and (iii) explore how wastewater reuse is communicated in policy and media discourse in specific cultures and contexts, and how attitudes towards reclaimed water and associated policies affect acceptance.The proposed four-year project will enable us to take a crucial step in addressing water treatment implementation challenges..

Coordination : Umeå University
Partenaires : This is a collaboration between Umeå University (UmU), University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) in Durban, South Africa, Institut Agronomique et Véterinaire Hassan II (IAV) and Mohammed V University (MVU), in Rabat, Morocco

Financement : Swedish Research Council
Budget : 4,341,000 kr

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