Wastewater Use in Agriculture: Challenges in Assessing Costs and Benefits

Estimating the benefits and costs of planned or unplanned, ongoing or future, water reuse projects is not without challenges. In additional to the common difficulties of applying cost benefits analysis in agriculture or for justifying the use of reclaimed wastewater, the chapter tries to present some particular challenges with respect to the assessment of wastewater irrigation in the developing country context where treatment might be minimal …