Urban agriculture is practiced by dwellers as an adaptive response to improve their food
security, household income, create informal employment and diversify their livelihood
through sales of surplus produce or savings. People in many cities, who practice urban
agriculture, are in most cases unemployed and poor and are faced with water shortages to
irrigate their crops. But treated wastewater can offer both water and nutrients needed for
crop growth partly covering the water shortage already experienced. Therefore in this case …