AQUACYCLE Local communities take an active part in the drawing up of actions plans for the reuse of treated wastewater

how the bottom-up inputs towards the drawing up of action plans for the reuse of treated domestic effluent was achieved through the successful organization of the second series of stakeholder workshops in Lebanon and Tunisia.
The first chapter reiterates on the scope of the Participatory GIS (PGIS) in AQUACYCLE, the motivation for targeting local communities around the pilot demonstration sites of the project’s eco-innovative domestic wastewater treatment system (APOC) and the logistics that were put in place ahead of the workshops. The second chapter informs on how the PGIS practice was introduced to the participants and its outcomes in both Lebanon and Tunisia. An appraisal on the PGIS practice sessions is provided both on the part of the organizers and on the part of the participants who joined in the event in the third chapter. Concluding remarks and a look ahead at the next steps make up the final, fourth chapter.
For the reasons explained in this report, the venue of the workshop in Spain was moved to a farmer community outside the Murcia Region. In lieu of the PGIS practice session, the participants in Spain were shown the actual reuse action plans in the Murcia Region where the reuse of treated effluent continues to be among the highest in Europe.