Rising levels of impervious surfaces in densely populated cities and climate change-related weather extremes such as heavy rain events or long dry periods provide us with new challenges for sustainable stormwater management urban areas. The Special Issue consists nine articles a review focuses on range relevant issues: different aspects findings runoff quantity quality, including strategies tec...

mercury is a dangerous and an extremely toxic element, which can transfer to the food chain.presence of this element in the atmosphere particularly during the rainy seasons cause soil and environmental pollution, therefore this research will evaluate the transformation of mercury vapor from the atmosphere through precipitation into the soil. in the present study, mercury concentrations were det...

BACKGROUND Community-based recruitment is challenging particularly if the sampling frame is not easily defined as in the case of people who drink rainwater. Strategies for contacting participants must be carefully considered to maximise generalisability and minimise bias of the results. This paper assesses the recruitment strategies for a 1-year double-blinded randomised trial on drinking untre...

Joyce is an economist at the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The views expressed are not attributable to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. We would like to thank Tim Smeeding and Lee Rainwater for the years of work it has taken to put the LIS data sets together.

this study tries to make a distinction between factors affecting adopters and non-adopters of domestic rainwater harvesting (drwh) in golestan province, iran. in order to better comprehend the differences, nine dimensions were considered in this study, including (1) social background (including respondents’ demographics, water sources, issues in accessing water sources, primary awareness of the...