Greywater Reuse in Urban Agriculture for Poverty Alleviation: A Case Study in Jordan

摘要: Abstract Although Jordan has a human development index higher than most developing countries, about seven percent of its population earns less the international poverty line one dollar (US$) day. Furthermore, because scarce water resources and rapidly growing population, poor, who are increasingly moving to cities, face food insecurity. This paper describes pilot project that allowed poor in Tufileh, Jordan, reuse untreated household greywater home gardens. The women community used small revolving loans implement simple recovery systems set-up offset purchases generate income by selling surplus production, saving or earning an average 10 income. Had households municipal sources for this supplemental irrigation, on average, they would have 15 more had 27 bills. Moreover, helped members g...