Socio-economic Potential of Rainwater Harvesting in Ethiopia

Social, Economic and Institutional Factors Affecting Utilization of Rainwater Harvesting Technology, Eastern Tigray, Ethiopia

The study is motivated by the belief that the constraints of the low productivity leads to poverty and famine cannot be overcome by simply concentrating on the rain fed agriculture therefore the rainwater issue needs to be addressed as well. In the course of this study primary data were collected from 201 households out of which 101 were users of RWHT while the rest 100 sampled households were ...

Potential Rainwater Harvesting Improvement Using Advanced Remote Sensing Applications

The amount of water on earth is the same and only the distribution and the reallocation of water forms are altered in both time and space. To improve the rainwater harvesting a better understanding of the hydrological cycle is mandatory. Clouds are major component of the hydrological cycle; therefore, clouds distribution is the keystone of better rainwater harvesting. Remote sensing technology ...

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...

Rainwater Harvesting in the Water-scarce Regions of India: Potential and Pitfalls

Risk Analysis Approach to Rainwater Harvesting Systems

Urban rainwater reuse preserves water resources and promotes sustainable development in rapidly growing urban areas. The efficiency of a large number of urban water reuse systems, operating under different climate and demand conditions, is evaluated here on the base of a new risk analysis approach. Results obtained by probability analysis (PA) indicate that maximum efficiency in low demanding s...