This volume discusses the current challenges related to the reuse of wastewater. It reviews the analytical methodologies for evaluating emerging contaminants and their transformation products, the sensitivity of various bioassays for assessing the biological effects of treated wastewater, and the bioavailability and uptake of organic contaminants during crop irrigation. It describes in detail the physicochemical and microbiological alterations in soil resulting from irrigation with treated urban wastewater, and discusses our current understanding of antibiotic resistance in wastewater treatment plants and in downstream environments. The book also includes an analysis of the effect of wastewater entering drinking water sources and production, and provides updated information on wastewater reuse for irrigation in North Africa. It presents an important integration tool for water recovery, known as water pinch analysis, and finally showcases two other examples of reuse – one in the paper industry and one in landfill management. It is of interest to experts from various fields of research, including analytical and environmental chemistry, toxicology and environmental and sanitary engineering.

Reclaimed wastewater
Treated wastewater
Organic micropollutants
Irrigation
Wastewater treatment plants
Source water impairment
Water recovery
water quality and water pollution
water quality and water pollution

• Front Matter
• Scope of the Book Wastewater Reuse and Current Challenges
• New Challenges for the Analytical Evaluation of Reclaimed Water and Reuse Applications
• Bioassays Currently Available for Evaluating the Biological Potency of Pharmaceuticals in Treated Wastewater
• Bioavailability and Uptake of Organic Micropollutants During Crop Irrigation with Reclaimed Wastewater: Introduction to Current Issues and Research Needs
• Irrigation with Treated Wastewater: Potential Impacts on Microbial Function and Diversity in Agricultural Soils
• Antibiotic Resistance Elements in Wastewater Treatment Plants: Scope and Potential Impacts
• Safe Drinking Water? Effect of Wastewater Inputs and Source Water Impairment and Implications for Water Reuse
• Design of Water Recovery System with Process Integration
• Wastewater Use in Agriculture and Relevance of Micropollutants in North African Countries
• Water Reuse Within the Paper Industry
• Reusing Landfill Leachate Within the Framework of a Proper Management of Municipal Landfills
• Back Matter

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus
Despo Fatta-Kassinos

Department of Biomedical, Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, USA
Dionysios D. Dionysiou

Institute of Sustainable and Environmental Chemistry, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Lüneburg, Germany
Klaus Kümmerer

Book Title
Wastewater Reuse and Current Challenges

Editors
Despo Fatta-Kassinos, Dionysios D. Dionysiou, Klaus Kümmerer

Series Title
The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23892-0

Hardcover ISBN
978-3-319-23891-3
Published: 11 February 2016

Softcover ISBN
978-3-319-79546-1
Published: 30 March 2018

eBook ISBN
978-3-319-23892-0
Published: 28 January 2016

Series ISSN
1867-979X

Series E-ISSN
1616-864X

Edition Number
1

Number of Pages
XIV, 261

Number of Illustrations
13 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour

Topics
Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution, Water Quality/Water Pollution, Analytical Chemistry, Geochemistry