Perfilado de sección

  • The Tunisian standards for the discharge of wastewater to the receiving environment is included in the Tunisian Law 106.03 (1989) approved in March 2018 by Order of the Minister of Local Affairs and the Environment and the Minister of Industry and Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises. The purpose of this standards is to define the conditions for the effluents discharge subject to authorisation in the water environment (Decree No 85-56 of 2 January 1985) and characteristics for the discharge of effluents into the public sanitation network (Decree No. 79-768 of 8 September 1979).

    Irrigation with recycled wastewater is well established in Tunisia. The Tunisian government is pursuing wastewater reuse in agriculture as a strategic objective and is translating the objective into systematic practice.