Due to the scarcity of sources … What is the solution to increase the treatment of wastewater? …
Oman- In the middle of the world which highlights the success of the Middle East, including Jordan, its success in the “recycling” of water as a strategic and necessary response to cope with the continuous pressure of water, Jordan produced each year between 150 and 200 million cubic meters of water treated with service stations.
While the report published by the international website “White & Kis”, of which “Tomorrow” obtained a copy of, confirmed the growing urgent need to diversify water sources in an economically and environmental manner feasible in the region, providing more water by exploiting unconventional resources is one of the priorities of the national strategic vision of the Ministry of Water and Irrigation, which extends between 2025 and 2040.
At a time when the report entitled “Water recycling: the lessons of the Middle East” indicated the importance of water recycling as a strategic and necessary response to the continuous water pressure in the region under these conditions, the Ministry of Water, according to its national strategy, seeks to increase the improvement of the use of unconventional water, to develop water resources.
In the search for the exploitation of non -traditional water resources, desalination of seawater is currently based on the top of the Kingdom’s priorities, so that the start of the national carrier project to disalate water from the Red Sea in Aqaba.
Partnership with the private sector
“Water” has more than 35 treatment stations distributed in various governors, while currently working to involve the private sector in its operation and management in long -term decades up to 20 years, which improves sustainability and reduces the cost of operating, according to the recent declarations of the Minister of Water and Irrigation Raed Abu Al -Saud.
In turn, the same report was martyred with the efficiency by which the Samra sewer station in Jordan is processed for around 70% of wastewater in Jordan using anaerobic digestion to convert organic sludge into vital gas, with coverage up to 80% of the station’s energy needs.
The report considered that the importance of water recycling in the Middle East is not limited only to solving the problem of water shortage, but also includes the launch of a set of common advantages between sectors.
Recycled water plays a vital role in relieving pressure on fresh and muffled water supply, reducing energy consumption and improving the sustainability of urban and agricultural systems, and these advantages are manifested in large -scale innovative projects that have been developed in the region, according to the report.
Returning to the details of the report itself, indicating that this process includes the treatment of wastewater from industrial, industrial and agricultural sources, according to criteria which guarantee reuse in complete safety, whether for non-coiteous purposes such as irrigation, industrial cooling and coordination of gardens, or to reuse indirectly, such as the re-evolution of the layers of the groundwater, or directly, eating.
He explained that, in light of the continuous rarity of water in the region, water recycling is emerged as a vital strategy, while the success of the Middle East shows how wastewater can be transformed from a burden into a precious resource.
He continued: “In an area where each drop of water is considered to be important water, the Middle East goes through a pivot stadium to re-vision how water is obtained, managed and reused.”
He added: “With the growing population, rapid urban expansion and climate change, the countries of the region are forced to confront a dramatic reality,” stressing that traditional water supply models, which largely depend on the layers of draining groundwater and the drawing of water that consume large amounts of energy.
Environmental threats
Despite the central role of water desalination in satisfying water demand in the region for a long time, it is always consumed by energy and expensive, as it constitutes serious environmental threats, in the long term, due to the large quantities of the targeted saline solution which behaves in fragile marine ecosystems.
In the axis of water recycling as a major strategy in the region, there are large -scale accreditation obstacles to water recycling, according to the report, which indicated that despite the clarity of the environmental and economic advantages for water recycling, it was not adopted worldwide due to current and multiple challenges.
Almost 52% of wastewater is treated globally, but this number hides disparities struck between countries according to their level of economic development, while high income economies (like those of Western Europe) deal with approximately 74% of wastewater, the percentage decreases significantly to around 4.3% in low income economies (like those of South Asia and Sub-Sanaran).
These differences reflect the disparities in access to infrastructure, financing and technical expertise.
He underlined certain other permanent obstacles to the success of the adoption of water recycling, such as social and cultural resistance, noting that cultural attitudes, misleading information and social stigma still praise many people to support the adoption and use of recycled waters, in particular in uses such as food production or in consumption water, and even when you deal with international standards using international standards using advanced processes using such as in the Osmosis for the Osmosis.
It is often considered by recycled water as involuntary or dangerous, a perception which can go beyond the violation of scientific evidence, and consequently, this contradiction between understanding and acceptance of the public, and technical reality, is undermined on demand, and ultimately weakens political support and support for private capital to invest in the infrastructure for the recycling of water, according to the report.
The report underlined in this regard the importance of providing the solid institutional and organizational framework, because it is not only a support element, but rather the backbone of any successful strategy for water recycling.
