Jordan is characterized as a “water scarce” country. Therefore, conserving ecosystem services such as water regulation and soil retention is challenging. In Jordan, rainwater harvesting has been adapted to meet those challenges. However, the spatial composition and configuration features of a target landscape are rarely considered when selecting a rainwater-harvesting site. This study aimed to ...

Introduction Rainwater harvesting is becoming increasingly popular as the availability of good quality water decreases. Rainwater harvesting is acknowledged as a sustainable source of water that has less impact on the environment. In 2004, 17% of households in Australia had rainwater as a source of water. In rural Western Australia 62% of the households owned rainwater tanks and 53% had rainwat...

Energy harvesting with the optimum power consumption and packet scheduling increase the lifetime and sustainability of the wireless sensor networks (WSNs) leading to green communications. Optimal packet scheduling solutions available for 2-user multiple-access channel (MAC) systems with energy harvesting transmitters do not consider the common data observed when collected sensor data is spatial...

Low-energy and low-cost separation of microalgae from water is important to the economics of microalgae harvesting and processing. Flotation under vacuum using a vacuum gas lift for microalgae harvesting was investigated for different airflow rates, bubble sizes, salinities and harvest volumes. Harvesting efficiency (HE) and concentration factor (CF) of the vacuum gas lift increased by around 5...

The student lead group Ecoalition secured a grant to promote water harvesting efforts around the University of Arizona (UA). One of the objectives of this grant was to create a georelational database of potential water harvesting sites around the UA campus. Students, faculty, and staff worked together to collect field data around the University to include in this database. Those involved in the...

background: rivers and streams are important sources of surface waters. water quality of these resources depends on many factors including hydrologic, physicochemical and biological factors. these resources are important in terms of social, economic and political development.. zayanderood river is the only river in central basin of iran that has permanent fresh water. this river has an importan...