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Andreas N. Angelakis, George Tchobanoglous, Andrea G. Capodaglio and Vasileios A. Tzanakakis
According to FAO, water scarcity is now affecting all five continents and is expected to intensify in the coming years as the water demands of the growing population increase and the impacts of climate variability become more pronounced. The existing une...
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Karen Bañas, Miguel Enrico Robles and Marla Maniquiz-Redillas
Roof runoff is collected rainwater from a roof using a rainwater harvesting system (RWHS). The construction of an efficient RWHS requires a thorough analysis of the rainwater quality and the appropriate treatment process for its intended use. In line wit...
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Sajeeve Latif, Mohammad A. Alim, Ataur Rahman and Md Mahmudul Haque
The supply of safe drinking water to rural communities has always been challenging, unlike in most large cities where government authorities have constructed central water supply systems. In many rural areas, primary water sources such as surface water a...
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Ashok K. Sharma, Peter Sanciolo, Amir Behroozi, Dimuth Navaratna and Shobha Muthukumaran
Integrated urban water management approaches (IUWM) are implemented to address challenges from increases in water demand as a result of population growth and the impact of climate change. IUWM aims to utilize all water resources (stormwater, wastewater, ...
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Ana M. Antão-Geraldes, Matheus Pinto, Maria João Afonso, António Albuquerque, Cristina Sousa Coutinho Calheiros and Flora Silva
This study aimed to determine the water demand of a Municipal Market building to propose water use efficiency measures. The flushing cisterns have the highest water consumption (63.15%), followed by washbasins, restaurant and coffee shop taps, and hairdr...
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Chulsang Yoo, Eunsaem Cho, Munseok Lee and Soeun Kim
Rainwater harvesting is generally assumed to collect rainwater from the roof or ground. However, this study shows that this structural limitation of rainwater harvesting can be overcome by employing a building wall. The rainfall on a building wall is cal...
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Mariana Martínez-Castrejón, Enrique J. Flores-Munguía, Oscar Talavera-Mendoza, América L. Rodríguez-Herrera, Omar Solorza-Feria, Osbelia Alcaraz-Morales, Jazmin A. López-Díaz and Giovanni Hernández-Flores
Climate change, urbanization, and population growth, particularly in urban areas such as Acapulco, Mexico, put pressure on water availability, where although surrounded by water, the inhabitants lack enough good-quality water, especially in the rainy sea...
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Mohammad Akrami, Alaa H. Salah, Mahdieh Dibaj, Maxime Porcheron, Akbar A. Javadi, Raziyeh Farmani, Hassan E. S. Fath and Abdelazim Negm
The need for sustainable desalination arises from fast-occurring global warming and intensifying droughts due to increasing temperatures, particularly in the Middle East and North African (MENA) regions. Lack of water resources has meant that the countri...
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Nibal Al-Batsh, Issam A. Al-Khatib, Subha Ghannam, Fathi Anayah, Shehdeh Jodeh, Ghadir Hanbali, Bayan Khalaf and Michael van der Valk
Yatta is a town located nine kilometers south of Hebron city in the West Bank of Palestine. The town houses over 100,000 people of which 49% are females and has a population that doubles every 15 years. Yatta has been connected to a water network since 1...
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Kerry A. Hamilton, Kerrianne Parrish, Warish Ahmed and Charles N. Haas
A study of water quality parameters was conducted in 38 small-scale roof-harvested rainwater barrels (RHRB) located in urban and peri-urban Philadelphia, USA in winter (November?December) 2014 and summer (June?August 2016). Parameters included two fecal ...
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