Water and Energy Abstracts
Year : 2004, Volume : 14, Issue : 1
First page : ( 49) Last page : ( 49)
Print ISSN : 0021-1672.

145. Improving Waste Stabilization Ponds – To Meet WHO Guidelines & Mexican Wastewater Effluent Reuse Standards

(Water, Issue 17, pp. 7).

Abstract

Mexico is Latin-America's leading country in terms of wastewater reuse with a total reuse area of approximately 350,000 ha. However, reuse of treated wastewater is still highly neglected, and entails a high risk of transmitting infectious diseases. Furthermore, only 24% of sewage and 11% of reused wastewaters are treated – although Mexico (with 87% sewerage coverage) has amongst the highest level of urban sanitation infrastructure in Latin-America. As a result, the prevalence of helminth worm infections in areas with high sewage reuse like the Mezquital Valley is greater than 45%.

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Keywords

Wastewater, Infectious diseases, Sanitation, Helminth.

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