Articles
Wastewater Treatment and Their Use
Water Engineering, Journal of the Society of Water EngineersTzvi Levinson, Adv. January 2000
The article relates to the following legal points regarding wastewater treatment plants: The Businesses Licensing Law 1968 as a framework for the regulation of wastewater treatment plants; The division of liability for environmental nuisances between a municipal authority who discharges its duties to treat wastewater through a contractor and the contractor; Disposal of wastewater to the sea; Implications of tightening existing standards for the quality of wastewater; The role of agriculture and Israel's water critical shortage; The potential for water saving in residential uses; Soil pollution from agricultural use of treated wastewater and sludge.