Analysis of Legal Considerations and Challenges of Wastewater Reuse Management

Subject Areas : environmental low

Hossein Shakeri ¹ (Ph.D. Candidate of Environmental Engineering - Water and Wastewater Engineering, Faculty of Civil, Water and Environmental Engineering, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran)
Mostafa Tizghadam ² (Assistant Professor, Department of Water and Wastewater Engineering, Faculty of Civil, Water and Environmental Engineering, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran)
Zahra Shakeri ³ (Assistant Professor, Department of Private Law, Faculty of Law & Political Science, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran *(Corresponding Author))

Received: 2018-08-11 Accepted : 2019-03-06 Published : 2020-09-22

Keywords: Environmental Law, legal and religious considerations, Wastewater reuse,

Abstract :

Wastewater reuse is considered as one of the important tools in the field of water resources management and environmental protection, the need to use it with increasing population is becoming more prominent day by day. This can be examined from different aspects and in addition to health and technical aspects, it also has various legal aspects that have direct and indirect effects on wastewater management and complicate the presentation of the pattern of use of these renewable resources. The main issue is that wastewater reuse, which may pose risks to public health and the environment, is based on legal principles? And if the reuse leads to hazard to people and the environment, how and on what basis is the relevant civil liability explained? Is this liability based on fault? Or should modern systems use pure or absolute responsibility in this regard? The current study tries to examine some of the most important jurisprudential and legal considerations arising from wastewater reuse with an analytical-descriptive method and based on the library process, and finally concludes that the reuse should be done with the principle of precaution and harmlessness. But if it leads to damages, the fault-based system cannot compensate for the damages due to the difficulties it has in the proof process. Therefore, the use of pure / absolute liability system and the promotion of specialized insurance in this regard are recommended.

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