six countries in the region reuse over m cyr of wastewater namely qatar and the united arab emirates which reuse over m cyr and egypt jordan kuwait and syrian arab republic which reuse m cyr of wastewater the treatment of wastewater for reuse has therefore become a mainstay of national water resource management plans in most countries in the escwa region the runoff is reused by diluting it in large surface water bodies in order to provide more water to downstream cropping systems and users with the exception of egypt and the syrian arab republic agricultural runoff is not used significantly by countries in the region in egypt almost m cyr of agricultural runoff is mixed with water from the nile and reused