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Title: | A case study of urban water balancing in the partly sewered city of Nablus-East (Palestine) to study wastewater pollution loads and groundwater pollution | Authors: | Borst, Barbara Mahmoud, Nidal Steen, Peter van der Lens, Piet N. L. |
Issue Date: | 2013 | Abstract: | Untreated sewage can contribute a significant proportion of urban groundwater recharge, via on-site sanitation facilities and sewer exfiltration. In the West Bank of the Palestinian Territories 94% of sewage is discharged untreated to the ground or surface waters. This has contributed to increasing nitrate concentrations in groundwater, which is the critical water source. In this case study of a drainage catchment from the city of Nablus, a water balance indicates that sewage as a source of groundwater recharge is as much as 50% of total recharge from precipitation, and nitrogen pollutant loads by area are up to 60% as much as those from agriculture. Results suggest that 22% of total wastewater flow directly infiltrates the ground via cesspits and sewer exfiltration | Description: | Environmental Engineering Mahmoud,Nidal: . P,van der Steen N: ,Lens P. N. L.: | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11889/3229 |
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