Treated wastewater technology in agriculture has become imperative to combat drought and water scarcity to overcome the ill impacts of climate change.

This was stated by experts while addressing an international seminar on “Agroecological and social interventions of reused water irrigation in a gastroenteritis context” in Faisalabad.

The seminar was jointly organized by the Department of Agronomy and Department of Rural Sociology, University of Agriculture Faisalabad.

They said that excessive ground water abstraction by pumps are resulting in lowering down groundwater coupled with deteriorating quality. They said that the adaptation of treated wastewater is an alternative way in agriculture.