A method of using wastewater run-off from fish farms having no multi-use hydrosystem with water cleaning technologies

Abstract For industrial water use planning, water usage and drainage per unit product standards must be established. This would allow for the conservation of fresh water resources without limiting irrigation in the face of the world’s ever-increasing drinking water deficit. Because fish farms use a lot of water, businesses that raise fish in artificial ponds usually dig deep wells to get to the valuable subsurface water they need. Because they lack a reusable water system equipped with treatment technologies, they typically discharge water into the environment after a single use, resulting in marshes, soil salinization, or transportation with surface water flow to the brackish water ecosystem. In recent years, the use of groundwater for fishing has spread in Armenia’s Ararat plain, one of the country’s most important agricultural regions. The Ararat plain has a water shortage for irrigation, which is mostly addressed by increasing water intake volumes from Lake Sean, a critical source of drinking water. In the absence of a multi-use hydrosystem with cleaning technologies, a method of utilizing fish farm wastewater for irrigation purposes is proposed as a water-saving and environmental-protection approach.