Water Resources Status Including Wastewater Treatment and Reuse in Greece: Related Problems and Prospectives

This paper presents an overview of regional water resources in Greece including water availability, water uses, wastewater reclamation, and reuse trends. Water demand has increased tremendously in recent decades. Despite adequate precipitation, several regions are under water stress due to temporal...

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Published in:Water international 2001-06, Vol.26 (2), p.252-258
Main Authors: Tsagarakis, Konstantinos P., Tsoumanis, Panagiotis, Chartzoulakis, Kostas, Angelakis, Andreas N.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Earth sciences
Earth, ocean, space
Effluent disposal sites
Engineering and environment geology. Geothermics
Exact sciences and technology
Hydrology
Hydrology. Hydrogeology
Pollution, environment geology
waste-water reuse
wastewater treatment
water availability
water resources
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Summary:This paper presents an overview of regional water resources in Greece including water availability, water uses, wastewater reclamation, and reuse trends. Water demand has increased tremendously in recent decades. Despite adequate precipitation, several regions are under water stress due to temporal and regional variations of precipitation, the high rate of evapotranspiration and the high cost of transporting water over the mountainous terrain. To address the problem of water stress, integration of reclaimed wastewater into water resources management is proposed. Data about the current situation of municipal wastewater treatment and reuse options are presented, and regional and temporal trends for wastewater reclamation and reuse are summarized. It is revealed that by proper management and reuse of the effluent from existing municipal wastewater treatment plants, water availability can be increased by 3.2 percent
ISSN:0250-8060
1941-1707
DOI:10.1080/02508060108686911