Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC), the World Health Organization (WHO), and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) launched an information kit on how to safely use wastewater in agriculture during World Water Week celebrations in Stockholm, Sweden, August 17-23.

 

The kit explains how to responsibly and feasibly apply the Guidelines for the Safe Use of Wastewater, Excreta and Greywater in Agriculture and Aquaculture, used by countries worldwide as the basis for regulation and standard setting to ensure safe wastewater management and the safety of drinking water. The Guidelines widely cite from the IDRC co-publication Wastewater Use in Irrigated Agriculture: Confronting the Livelihood and Environmental Realities.

 

The August 18 launch featured a panel of experts including IDRC’s Mark Redwood, WHO’s Jamie Bartram, FAO’s Sasha Koo-Oshima, and the Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control’s Thor Axel Stenstrom.