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Journal Article 
Sewage farming: Benefits and adverse effects 
Saber, M; Abouziena, HF; Hoballah, EM; Haggag, WM; Zaghloul, AEDM 
2016 
0 
Research Journal of Pharmaceutical, Biological and Chemical Sciences
ISSN: 0975-8585 
Research Journal of Pharmaceutical, Biological and Chemical Sciences 
7 
3 
297-313 
English 
Under the umbrella of international water scarcity, it became an obligation to reuse low quality water in farming. Both raw and treated sewage effluent are now extensively reused in irrigating crops in several parts of the world. It was apparently recognized that sewage farming has both beneficial and adverse impacts on the soil ecosystem as well as on the safety of harvested crops that affects both human and animal health. At the time being there are many innovated biotechnologies that proved its usefulness in combating the adverse impacts of sewage farming. The relevance of these narrative biotechnologies is in spite of everything experienced at diminutive scale due to their economic feasibility. On the other hand, sewage farming reimbursement the soil ecosystem and ameliorate its chemical physical and biological conditions as well. Our main intention is to maximize sewage farming benefits and combating there its adversative impacts. It sounds that sewage farming will be a foremost requisite in the near future at many areas all over the world. © 2010 RJPBCS. 
Contaminants; Irrigation; Phyllosphere; Potential toxic elements (PTEs)