ROOFTOP RAINWATER HARVESTING AND ITS EFFICIENCY IN KABUL NEW CITY

Assessing the Potential for Rooftop Rainwater Harvesting from Large Public Institutions

As in many other cities, urbanization coupled with population growth worsens the water supply problem of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, with a water supply deficit of 41% in 2016. To investigate the potential contribution of rooftop rainwater harvesting (RWH) from large public institutions, 320 such institutions were selected and grouped into 11 categories, from which 25-30% representative 588 rooftops...

Investigations of Rainwater harvesting system from Rooftop catchment (Case study: babolrood catchment)

Quality of Drinking Water from Rainwater Harvesting Cisterns of Hebron City and Factors Affecting It

An established goal of WHO and its member states is that all people, whatever their stage of development and their social and economic conditions have the right to have access to an adequate supply of safe drinking water (WHO, 1986, 1996, 1997). Water is considered one of the most important and sensitive issues in the Middle East, where increasing water deficiency and deterioration of the avail...

Sustainable urban water supply in south India: Desalination, efficiency improvement, or rainwater harvesting?

[1] Indian megacities face severe water supply problems owing to factors ranging from growing population to high municipal pipe leakage rates; no Indian city provides 24/7 water supply. Current approaches to addressing the problem have been “utility centric,” overlooking the significance of decentralized activities by consumers, groundwater extraction via private wells, and aquifer recharge by ...

Mandatory urban rainwater harvesting: learning from experience.

Rainwater harvesting is effectively mandated in several urban areas of New Zealand. To understand the costs and benefits of rainwater harvesting from an end-user perspective, semistructured interviews were conducted with 14 homeowners in northern Auckland affected by these regulations. Residents report differences in four aspects of urban rainwater infrastructure - security of supply, water qua...