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Rain water harvesting for water efficiency and management

open access: yes, 2013
Water being one of the world’s basic resources and one of the most essential needs to life, could be considered the nature’s precious gift to the living being.
Wickramasuriya, SS   +2 more
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Reconfiguring Fresh Produce Supply Chains in Response to Drought Risk: Evidence From the U.S. Broccoli Market

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Drought is among the most severe and persistent threats to food supply chains, and relocating production to less drought‐prone regions offers a strategy to reduce this risk. This is particularly relevant for fresh vegetables, which are highly water‐intensive, yet drought‐driven reconfiguration strategies remain understudied.
Bingyan Dai   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Livelihood Diversification as an Adaptation Strategy to Climate Change and Household Food Security of Livestock Holders in Pakistan

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rural farm households continue to face significant risks from climate change, resulting in many of them diversifying their livelihood sources into other income‐generating activities to increase their incomes and improve food and nutrition security. In this study, we examine the drivers and impact of farm households' participation in livelihood
Mahwish Arshad, Awudu Abdulai
wiley   +1 more source

Management of gray water and rain water

open access: yes, 2017
Evolution and advancements of human activity is unstoppable, still we should not forget about basic natural processes which proceed no matter how man can influence them.
Kocourková, Michaela
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(Table 1) Concentration of Cl-, Mg2+, Ca2+, and HCO3- in rain water above the Atlantic Ocean

open access: yes, 1973
(Table 1) Concentration of Cl-, Mg2+, Ca2+, and HCO3- in rain water above the Atlantic ...
Korzh, Vyacheslav D   +1 more
core   +1 more source

Smart Bioinspired Material‐Based Actuators: Current Challenges and Prospects

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Systems, Volume 7, Issue 3, March 2025.
This work gathers, in a review style, an extensive and comprehensive literature overview on the development of autonomous actuators based on synthetic materials, bringing together valuable knowledge from several studies. Furthermore, the article identifies the fundamental principles of actuation mechanisms and defines key parameters to address the size
Alejandro Palacios   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rain water recover research and design.

open access: yes, 2015
Master's thesis is about multi-residential building, located in Kaunas, designed for collecting rainwater, wastewater disposal and water supply systems. The building has 9 floors and basement. There is a pantry, water metering unit and heating station in
Rybinas, Artūras,
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Rain Water Harvesting in Kathmandu

open access: yesHydro Nepal: Journal of Water, Energy and Environment, 1970
Not available.DOI: 10.3126/hn.v7i0.4230Hydro Nepal Journal of Water, Energy and Environment Vol 7, July, 2010 Page: 17-19 Uploaded date: 31 January, 2011  
Basanta D. Shrestha, Jeewan P. Thanju
openaire   +2 more sources

Lost ground, lost value: Investigating the relationship between soil erosion and agricultural land value

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines the impact of soil erosion on agricultural land values in the United States (US) Midwest. Based on a novel county‐level panel data set with information on soil erosion levels and agricultural land values covering five census years (1997, 2002, 2007, 2012, and 2017), we separately investigate the direct effect of two types ...
Le Chen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Determination of Physicochemical Characteristics of Early Rain Water in a Rain Forest Region, Owerri, Nigeria.

open access: yes, 2014
Analysis of physicochemical characteristics of samples of rain water collected from rain gauges at two sampling stations at Orji and Umuchima-Ihiagwa in Owerri, Nigeria revealed that rain water from sampling station, Orji (RWSO) had the highest pH value (
U.U. Egereonu   +5 more
core   +2 more sources

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