Treated Wastewater Not Recognized as Valuable Resource in South Khorasan

Large volumes of treated wastewater from Birjand Wastewater Treatment Plant in South Khorasan Province are piped to plains in and around Khosf County as neither industries nor the agriculture sector purchases the valuable resource, managing director of the provincial water and wastewater company said.
“Close to 7 million cubic meters of wastewater are recycled in the facility per year, all of which are dumped into the plains while the region has long been suffering from a dire water shortage,” Hossein Emami was also quoted as saying by IRNA.
Wastewater reuse has been recognized as a pragmatic solution to deal with water scarcity around the globe. Nonetheless, industrialists and farmers in the arid region still insist on extracting water from depleting ground resources instead of tapping into unconventional resources that can easily meet their need, he rued.