Wastewater Treatment and Use in Agriculture - FAO Irrigation and Drainage Paper 47

Author: Pescod, M. B.

Year: 1992

Publisher: Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, Rome Italy.

This Irrigation and Drainage Paper is intended to provide guidance to national planners and decision-makers, agricultural and municipal managers, field engineers and scientists, health and agricultural field workers, wastewater treatment plant operators and farmers. Consequently, it covers a broad range of relevant material, some in considerable depth but some more superficially. It is meant to encourage the collection, treatment and use of wastewater in agriculture in a safe manner, with maximum advantage taken of this resource. Informal, unplanned and unorganized wastewater use is not recommended, nor is it considered adviseable from the health or agricultural points of view.

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