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Atakoy Wwtp, Turkey
(Fisia Italimpianti & Alkatas).
MBR Plant

the availability of resources: water scarcity and
droughts are current issues, this risks to become Fisia Italimpianti has recently
more intense in the future due to climate chan-
ge and increasing population. For this reason, constructed for the Municipality
water reuse can provide alternatives to existing “of Istanbul a plant with an
water supplies, minimizing the use of conventio- advanced biological treatment
nal water resources, such as surface water and
groundwater. for the purpose of irrigation/
Apart from being fundamental for human survi- industrial reuse of the water
ving, in fact, water adjusts also the Earth ecosy- derived from municipal sewage
stem: every time human beings use, process
and take advantage of water, this has a resulting collection
impact on the environmental system, in terms of
pollution or water scarcity.
Nevertheless, also the social aspect plays a rele-
One of the most immediate vant role, the public perception may be a difficult
reasons to reuse treated obstacle to overcome: in the collective imagination,
reused water will have a worst quality if compared
“wastewater is the availability to the conventional sources, regardless of the tre-
of resources, due to water atment level, so sometimes it is not easy to make
people accept it. This is the reason why an aware-
scarcity, droughts, increasing ness campaign is definitely a tool which must be
world population and advancing included in the water reuse policy.
climate change In fact, public belief is a factor as important as the
other aspects. From a mere technical point of view,
the recycled water source could be sometimes
In the last few years, then, most of the governments better than the incoming raw surface water from
all over the world are more and more projected to- surface water, in which several sewage discharges
wards an eco-friendly policy: a transition to a cir- could insist. Everything depends on the required
cular economy represents an advantage from an purification degree which in turns affects the em-
economic point of view, because wastewater reuse ployed technologies. For these reasons, the psy-
allows to safeguard the environmental system, and chological effect plays a relevant role, it is not easy
this in turns leads to a “waste-free” water mana- for the average person to accept this aspect, even
gement. more so if water is recycled for drinking purposes.
In this regard, Fisia Italimpianti has recently com- Researchers and governments are supposed to
pleted a contract for the Municipality of Istanbul adopt strategies to deal with this problem, to give
(ISKI) ATAKOY WWTP, which included an advan- everybody the instruments to understand and ac-
ced biological treatment plant (MBR) for the pur- cept water reclaiming.
pose of irrigation/industrial reuse of the water Every wastewater can be reused after an appropria-
resource deriving from the municipal sewage te treatment, everything is based on technical and
collection net. economical assessments: in several geographical

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