FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF CENTRALIZED WASTEWATER REUSE SYSTEMS AND COMPARISON BETWEEN CENTRALIZED AND DECENTRALIZED SYSTEMS

Centralized wastewater treatment system, as the conventional system, has been applied over many decades in developed countries. Normally the term centralized wastewater treatment system is used to describe systems consisting of a sewer system that collects wastewater from households, small enterprises, industrial plants and governmental buildings, and transports this ever-changing mixture to a wastewater treatment plant. But this concept is increasingly challenged, especially in developing countries.