Wastewater Chapter Eight Wastewater Wastewater Wastewater is the spent water of a community, its liquid portion becoming a vehicle for the transport of wastes in sewers.
Wastewater is a complex mixture of mineral and organic matter.
It contains a variety of inorganic substances as a result of various domestic and industrial uses. Thus, the disposal of industrial, municipal and domestic wastes has to be controlled and properly planned. Tulkarm is sharing the West Bank districts in the same miserable sanitation situation where the dumping of the generated wastewater from various sites of the community is apparently uncontrolled and ill-managed. In all the cities and villages of the Tulkarm district, the wastewater is either collected or disposed of into the wadis or dumped in cesspits. Such methods of disposal increase chances of sewage infiltration into the groundwater, along with its contents of pollutants, bacteria and viruses resulting in dangerous environmental health problems.