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Traditional domestic rainwater harvesting systems: classification, sustainability challenges, and future perspectives

open access: yesJournal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering, 2023
Traditional domestic rainwater harvesting systems (RWHSs) are often at risk of being destroyed. The wide variety of traditional domestic RWHSs across the globe makes defining the sustainability challenges difficult.
Weinan Zhou   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Research on Flood Control and Waterlog Draining Management of Traditional Villages Based on the Sponge Concept

open access: yesTaiyuan Ligong Daxue xuebao, 2022
In order to study the methods and systems of flood management in traditional villages and to explore the wisdom and experience behind the water system level of traditional Chinese villages.
Tianjie DANG, Yanping DONG, Ziqing TANG
doaj   +1 more source

The Effect of Sprinkler Irrigation on Grain Yield, Yield Components and Water Use Efficiency of Rice Cultivars under Drill-Seed Cultivation in Khuzestan [PDF]

open access: yesعلوم و مهندسی آبیاری, 2019
Water scarcity is a major constraint in the development of rice farming in some parts of the world. In many areas, the volume of water consumed in the field and during the growing season of rice is usually more than the actual requirement due to ...
Abdolali Gilani   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Design and Implementation of a Smart Solar Irrigation System Using IoT and Machine Learning [PDF]

open access: yesE3S Web of Conferences, 2023
Water scarcity is a major challenge in the agriculture industry, and traditional irrigation methods are often wasteful and inefficient. To address this challenge, a smart solar irrigation system that uses loT and Artificial Neural Network (ANN ...
B. Anitha   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Development of Passive Defense in Supplying Drinking Water in Yazd City by Improving the Weaknesses Governing Current Situation [PDF]

open access: yesعلوم و مهندسی آب و فاضلاب, 2018
The history of water supply in the Yazd desert province indicates many difficulties experienced by the people of this province throughout the years.
Hassan Piri Hor   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Social-Centred Gamification Approach to Improve Household Water Use Efficiency [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The research community is showing a growing interest in gamification and there are works showing the usefulness of gamification in different problem domains.
Capiluppi, A, Wang, Z
core   +1 more source

Cities Have Water History And We Need To Understand That

open access: yesSpace and Culture, India, 2019
The water crisis is not a new issue, but new is the quantum of crisis. Cities are the centres of civilisation and so are the largest consumers of water.
Gopa Samanta
doaj   +1 more source

Evaluation of a hydrographic technique to measure on-farm water storage volumes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Digital terrain models of on-farm water storages are required to assist in accurately measuring the on-farm water balance and water use efficiency components including storage capacity, inflow, seepage, evaporation and discharge volumes.
Clark   +10 more
core   +1 more source

Customary water resources governance in the Faase community of Ghana

open access: yesSocial Sciences and Humanities Open, 2021
The relevance of customary water governance system which served many communities well over centuries has reduced drastically. This is due to the introduction of the statutory system of governance.
Yvonne D.A. Adjakloe
doaj   +1 more source

The paradoxical values of traditional deep water floating rice systems

open access: yesGlobal Food Security, 2020
Abstract Deep water floating rice (DW-FR) production has declined substantially across Asia, despite being a source of nutritious, culturally-important and flood-adapted food. Low perceived commercial value, and the desire for increased rice exports, has led to intensified farming of high yielding variety (HYV) rice.
David Dumaresq   +6 more
openaire   +2 more sources

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