Public Perceptions On Water Reuse Options: The Case Of Sulaibiya Wastewater Treatment Plant In Kuwait

Alhumoud, Jasem M.; Madzikanda, David

doi:10.19030/iber.v9i1.515

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“…In Kuwait, where recycled water availability is already common, the majority of inhabitants do drink both tap and bottled water. However, the majority would not want to use recycled water for drinking when explicitly asked [9]. In our study, hypothetical technologically recycled drinking water made from wastewater found its highest acceptance in activities not involving oral consumption of water, such as watering the garden or pot plants, toilet flushing, or car washing; other non-consumption activities would probably be rated likewise.…”

Section: Relevance Of Reuse and Estimation Of Acceptable Usagementioning

confidence: 67%

“…New technologies may help to provide drinking water without needing to permanently take raw water from natural resources, and may also help increase raw water availability and quality of raw water resources. The further treatment of wastewater after its treatment in a sewage plant is already an important issue in several EU and non-EU countries, where water shortages are common [1,9,10]. Sewage plant outputs are then cleaned further for fit-for-purpose requirements, like agricultural applications, industrial needs, or even drinking purposes.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This can either be planned indirect uses, i.e., sewage output cleaned to drinking water quality that is given back to nature to increase quality of raw water and then further processed by water works, or planned direct potable reuse, i.e., the direct use of cleaned sewage plant output for drinking purposes. Nowadays, supplying drinking water to households directly from wastewater treatment supplies is technologically possible; examples exist in Kuwait [9], the USA [11], Australia [12], and Singapore [8,13]. However, public acceptance of such procedures remains limited [9,14].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Nowadays, supplying drinking water to households directly from wastewater treatment supplies is technologically possible; examples exist in Kuwait [9], the USA [11], Australia [12], and Singapore [8,13]. However, public acceptance of such procedures remains limited [9,14]. Although modern wastewater treatment technologies can turn wastewater into recycled water of a better quality than existing potable water standards [15,16], without public acceptance, an introduction of recycled water may fail [17][18][19].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Students imagined closed pipe-to-pipe-like systems, where sewage plants clean sewage to drinking water quality, waterworks distribute the cleaned water to consumers, and nature played no role in the cleaning process. Likewise, Alhumound and Madzikanda described a lack of basic understanding about wastewater treatment by adult residents of Kuwait [9]. To make it clear, the global natural water cycle is a closed system, with the same water being recycled and used over and over again [21].…”

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Section: Relevance Of Reuse and Estimation Of Acceptable Usagementioning

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Public Perceptions On Water Reuse Options: The Case Of Sulaibiya Wastewater Treatment Plant In Kuwait

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What Germany’s University Beginners Think about Water Reuse

What Germany’s University Beginners Think about Water Reuse

The psychology of recycled water: Factors predicting disgust and willingness to use

Water Quality Analysis and Risk Assessment of Potential Toxic Elements in Selected Surface Water Around Mining Sites in Abuakwa South Municipal, Ghana

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