The safe re-use of wastewater for agriculture is a desired goal in many arid zone countries. The potential of greywater as alternative irrigation source for vegetable crops was investigated. To-mato, pea and cantaloupe plants were drip irri-gated with both fresh Nile water and greywater to access the impact on yield production and asso-ciated environmental and health risks. The biolog-ical properties of the two different sources of wa-ter clearly indicated that greywater was extremely higher in