Use of cloth-media filter for membrane bioreactor treating municipal wastewater

► The cloth-media could be used for membrane bioreactor and produces low cost cloth-media MBR. ► System is easy to clean and mechanical cleaning is sufficient to recover flux rate to the original. ► Physico-chemically the cloth-media MBR provides effluent that meets Saudi and Egyptian standards for unrestricted irrigation ► The cloth-media MBR decreases faecal coliform by four logs and conditions the effluent for disinfection.