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Sakhnin Center as a Model for Environment Education and International Cooperation on Advanced Wastewater Treatment (A-WWT) in Rural Areas
- Rural area wastewater treatment (WWT) plants usually use low investment technology, and suffer from problems of low process efficiency and poor effluent quality. Such plants can result in environmental damage – such as the pollution of existing surface and groundwater sourcesv and in the loss of significant quantities of potentially reusable water.
- The Sakhnin Regional Demonstration Centre (SRDC) was the first one of its kind in the Arab community of Israel and has several ongoing activities, including environmental planning, education and WWT. The SRDC’s activities are based around the operation of the local WWT plant, which treats effluent from about 70% of local households. Although basic infrastructure exists, there is a dire need to upgrade existing wastewater treatment facilities to produce improved quality effluent for local agricultural irrigation.
| Project number | LIFE03 TCY/IL/000035 | ||
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| Subject(s) | AGRICULTURE , ANALYSIS AND TESTS , CHARACTERISTICAL PARAMETERS OF WATERS AND SLUDGES , DRINKING WATER AND SANITATION : COMMON PROCESSES OF PURIFICATION AND TREATMENT , MEASUREMENTS AND INSTRUMENTATION , PREVENTION AND NUISANCES POLLUTION , SANITATION -STRICT PURIFICATION PROCESSES , WATER QUALITY | ||
| Geographical coverage | Israel, Turkey | ||
| Budget (in €) | 728796 | ||
| Programme | LIFE | ||
| Web site | http://ec.europa.eu/environment/life/project/Projects/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.createPage&s_ref=LIFE03%20TCY%2FIL%2F000035&area=3&yr=2003&n_proj_id=2543&cfid=615886&cftoken=9524bd1657ba64b1-4296ACA0-D094-91A4-87343BEAAEFE045A&mode=print&menu=false') | ||
| Objectives | The objective is to develop an improved treatment works which will allow the added water quality benefits to be studied and communicated to local communities, and further afield. The main planned activities are: • Designing advanced technologies for upgrading the WWT plant in Sakhnin; • Educational activities involving independent work projects on chemical, environmental and agronomic subjects related to the operation of the WWT plant and effluent reuse; • Annual workshops on WWT technologies in rural areas; and • International exchange of upgrading technologies for rural area WWT plants. |
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| Results | ppt | ||
| Period | [01/01/2004 - 31/12/2006] | ||
