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...

BACKGROUND Black Tickle-Domino is an extremely water-insecure remote Inuit community in the Canadian subarctic that lacks piped-water. Drinking water consumption in the community is less than a third of the Canadian national average. Water insecurity in the community contributes to adverse health, economic, and social effects and requires urgent action. OBJECTIVES To test the ability of domes...

Rainwater harvesting (RWH) is a relatively inexpensive technology that has the potential to provide safe water in communities where conventional technologies are difficult to implement. In this study, the microbiological quality of rainwater harvested from rooftops and ground-surface runoff was evaluated based on the concentrations of Escherichia coli, total coliforms and enterococci. Samples w...

Abstract Rainwater harvesting is a common practice of storing water in container before it will be used for other purposes. On domestic scale, homeowners with rainwater system (RWHS) installed their houses faced challenges to maintain and use the stored water. Therefore, this study aims identify strengths, weakness, opportunities, threats (SWOT) conventional small-scale RWHS. A comprehensive op...

Rainwater harvesting technology is among the oldest methods of fetching water households. The demand for use has grown globally outpacing population growth, and increasingly, many regions are currently reaching levels which services unsustainable, especially in Arid Semi-Arid Lands (ASAL) regions. Inadequate domestic agricultural had negative impacts on households ASAL areas. There been however...