اعادة استخدام المياه العادمة المعالجة للاغراض الزراعية في منطقة رام الله بين المعيقات وسبل التعزيز
Date
2014-01-06
Authors
نبراس عبد الكريم حسين الريماوي
Nebras Abdelkareem Hussein Alremawi
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AL-Quds University
جامعة القدس
جامعة القدس
Abstract
Abstract
The scarcity of freshwater in most Palestinian regions is an escalating problem, particularly as
the Palestinian populations continue to grow with constant enhancement of their living
standards. Water claim is also accelerating due to industrial development and increasing
demands of irrigated lands. One of the alternative solutions for water scarcity is the use of
treated wastewater in agriculture, which simultaneously avoids the negative impact of
wastewater disposal in the environment. The reuse of treated domestic wastewater in
agriculture has recently expanded and forced some governments for its inclusion in their
overall water budget.
This research aims at studying the obstacles facing the wastewater reuse in agriculture in
Ramallah agricultural areas from expertise and farmers point of view. The researcher chosen
ten from a purposive list of expertise working in different governmental and nongovernmental
institutions including universities for interviewing, and distributed a
questionnaire on 295 farmer selected randomly from the farmers in Ramallah district.The
research was conducted form January 2013 to January 2014. The data obtained from farmers
was analyzed using SPSS and those obtained from interviewing the expertise using qualitative
analysis.
The researcher concluded that the farmers have a knowledge about the treated wastewater but
don’t know how it is treated and the health and environmental restrictions about its reuse in
agriculture. Farmers were found capable to accept the reuse of treated wastewater in their
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farms if there is a nearby source of treated wastewater. The main obstacles in the reuse of
treated wastewater from the view of studied farmers were their weakness in environmental
awareness and because they don’t trust the good quality of the treated wastewater. Farmers
think that there is no or weak control and follow-up on the quality of treated wastewater from
the official bodies. The researcher also concluded that the funding agencies aware to build
wastewater treatment plants but they are not aware for the reuse of the treated wastewater in
agriculture. The religious factor was the main obstacle facing the reuse of treated wastewater
in agriculture from the farmers point of view.
The researcher recommend attending training programs to support the farmers acceptance to
reuse treated wastewater in agriculture aiming at strengthen their awareness about the health,
economic, and environmental impact of the reuse of treated wastewater, along with clarifying
the good quality of treated wastewater to be used for certain trees and crops. It is
recommended also to build a successful models for the reuse of treated wastewater to
encourage farmers to follow these models in terms of lowering the production cost and
obtaining good yield with low price. Among the recommendations are intensifying the control
from the official bodies on the quality of effluent of wastewater treatment plants, and educate
farmers about the religion opinion in terms of the reuse of treated wastewater in agriculture. It
is recommended also to provide the farmers in the western areas of Ramallah who don’t have
a source of irrigation with zero-cost treated wastewater to encourage them to use treated
wastewater as alternative to costly fresh water
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الارشاد الزراعي , Agriculture Extension