- Title
- Extended use of grey water for irrigating home gardens in an arid environment
- Creator
- Al-Ismaili, Abdulrahim M, Ahmed, Mushtaque, Al-Busaidi, Ahmed, Al-Adawi, Seif, Tandlich, Roman, Al-Amri, Mohammed
- Date
- 2017
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/76048
- Identifier
- vital:30497
- Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-017-8963-z
- Description
- The use of treated grey water (GW) for home gardens, peri-urban agriculture and landscaping is becoming popular in many water stressed countries such as Oman. This study aims to investigate the treatment efficacy, health and chemical concerns, cost-benefits and maintenance protocol of a GW treatment system as well as the effect of irrigation with GW on crop yield. Therefore, a decentralized homemade GW treatment system was installed in a newly constructed house in Muscat, Oman and studied over a 2-year period. The treated GW was found to be suitable for irrigation as per Omani standards. GW when mixed with kitchen effluent substituted the use of nutrient supplements for plants and did not show any harmful chemical or biological contamination. The capital cost of the system was around US $980, and the annual operating cost was US $78 with annual income and savings from the system being around US $572 indicating a payback period of nearly 2 years. It was found that the system required simple but regular maintenance particularly cleaning of the top layer of the filter. It can be concluded from this study that such a GW system should be technically, economically and environmentally feasible in Oman. Also, wider acceptance by the general public to the idea of GW reuse will help in mitigating the water shortage problem of the country to some extent.
- Format
- 9 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Environmental Science and Pollution Research, Al-Ismaili, A.M., Ahmed, M., Al-Busaidi, A., Al-Adawi, S., Tandlich, R. and Al-Amri, M., 2017. Extended use of grey water for irrigating home gardens in an arid environment. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 24(15), pp.13650-13658., Environmental Science and Pollution Research volume 24 number 15 13650 13658 April 2017 1614-7499
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- SpringerLink
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