Tank costs for domestic rainwater harvesting in East Africa [PDF]
, 2012 Rainwater harvesting from hard roofing can provide safe water to meet the basic domestic needs of several hundred million people in low-income countries.
Rowe, Nick +4 more
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The perceived barriers to the inclusion of rainwater harvesting systems by UK house building companies [PDF]
, 2010 This work investigates the barriers that exist to deter the implementation of rainwater harvesting into new UK housing. A postal questionnaire was sent to a selection of large, medium and small house-builders distributed across the UK.
Fewkes, A +7 more
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Modelling of a roof runoff harvesting system: The use of rainwater for toilet flushing [PDF]
, 2011 The water balance of a four-people family rainwater harvesting system was calculated in a case study. The experimental water saving efficiency (WSE) was calculated as 87 %.
Sablayrolles, Caroline, +12 more
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Rainwater harvesting:environmentally beneficial for the UK? [PDF]
, 2010 Rainwater harvesting (RWH) feels right from a long-term sustainability perspective. Short-cutting the hydrological cycle seems to make logical sense from an environmental stance, and the technique is being driven into new buildings in the United Kingdom (
Cooke, R. +11 more
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Poor Kids in a Rich Country by Lee Rainwater and Timothy Smeeding
, 2023 Reviewed Work: Poor Kids in a Rich Country by Lee Rainwater and Timothy ...
Rainwater, Lee, Smeeding, Timothy
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Rainwater harvesting in arid and semi-arid lands of Africa: challenges and opportunities [PDF]
, 2023 Aim of the study: Arid and semi-arid lands often face a shortage of freshwater due to uncontrolled runoff. In arid and semi-arid regions of Africa, rainwater harvesting is a promising solution that can be implemented for multiple purposes such as ...
Romain Ntole +7 more
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Rainwater harvesting feasibility considering deep uncertainties
, 2023 This is the code developed in student Gabriela Pacheco's PHD to assess rainwater harvesting systems feasibility considering deep ...
Gabriela Cristina Ribeiro Pacheco +1 more
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Monitoring of water quality from roof runoff: Interpretation using multivariate analysis [PDF]
, 2011 The quality of harvested rainwater used for toilet flushing in a private house in the south-west of France was assessed over a one-year period. Temperature, pH, conductivity, colour, turbidity, anions, cations, alkalinity, total hardness and total ...
S. Jacob +16 more
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Water quality monitoring and hydraulic evaluation of a household roof runoff harvesting system in France [PDF]
, 2012 The quality of harvested rainwater used for toilet flushing in a private house in the south-west of France was assessed over a one-year period. Twenty-one physicochemical parameters were screened using standard analytical techniques.
Huau, Marie-Christine +6 more
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Quantifying mains water savings from residential rainwater tanks [PDF]
, 2023 The premise for mandating rainwater tanks, or implementing expensive financial incentive programs such as rebates for the installation of tanks, is that meaningful savings can be achieved from the potable water supply.
Turner, A, Fyfe, J
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