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Enedir Ghisi, Thiago Belotto and Liseane Padilha Thives
A reduction in potable water demand in buildings could be made by using non-potable water for certain uses, such as flushing toilets. This represents a sustainable strategy that results in potable water savings while also using an underutilised resource....
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Isabel Domínguez, Sarah Ward, Jose Gabriel Mendoza, Carlos Iván Rincón and Edgar Ricardo Oviedo-Ocaña
Rainwater harvesting (RWH) and greywater reuse (GWR) are increasingly being considered at the building-level to achieve multiple goals. Cost-benefit assessments facilitate decision-making; however, most are focused on large-scale systems with limited inf...
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Robert Sitzenfrei, Jonatan Zischg, Markus Sitzmann and Peter M. Bach
Traditional (technical) concepts to ensure a reliable water supply, a safe handling of wastewater and flood protection are increasingly criticised as outdated and unsustainable. These so-called centralised urban water systems are further maladapted to up...
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Lucas Niehuns Antunes, Liseane Padilha Thives and Enedir Ghisi
There is a growing concern about the scarcity of water resources due to population growth and increased demand for potable water. Thus, the rational use of water has become necessary for the conservation of such resources. The objective of this study is ...
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Miguel Ángel López Zavala, Ricardo Castillo Vega, Rebeca Andrea López Miranda
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Northeastern Mexico is a semiarid region with water scarcity and a strong pressure on water sources caused by the rapid increase of population and industrialization. In this region, rainwater harvesting alone is not enough to meet water supply demands du...
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Yie-Ru Chiu, Yao-Lung Tsai and Yun-Chih Chiang
Current centralized urban water supply depends largely on energy consumption, creating critical water-energy challenge especially for many rapid growing Asian cities. In this context, harvesting rooftop rainwater for non-potable use has enormous potentia...
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Samara Fernanda Da Silva, Vicky Britto, Camila Azevedo and Asher Kiperstok
The government has to lead, by example, the effort for more rational water use. Nevertheless, public buildings in countries like Brazil lack the operational and maintenance organization necessary to induce better environmental practices. This paper prese...
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Miklas Scholz
Sustainable water systems often comprise complex combinations of traditional and new system components that mimic natural processes. These green systems aim to protect public health and safety, and restore natural and human landscapes. Green infrastructu...
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Ali Belmeziti, Olivier Coutard and Bernard De Gouvello
The practice of rainwater harvesting (RWH) is spreading rapidly in urban areas. This article studies the impact of a possible generalization of this practice for municipalities by proposing a new method to quantify the potential for potable water savings...
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Eduardo Leite Souza and Enedir Ghisi
The objective of this study is to assess the potential for potable water savings by using rainwater as well as the sizing of rainwater tanks in houses in some cities in the world. Daily rainfall data for thirteen cities located in different countries wer...
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