The Star City rainwater harvesting system (RWHS) was featured in the December, 2008, issue of Water 21. The article highlighted that the RWHS has a 3,000 m3 rainwater tank used in water saving, flood mitigation, and emergency response. Since then, many news media, public officials, and people from both South Korea and abroad have visited the RWHS. In this paper, two years of the system's operat...

Using a combination of qualitative and quantitative data, this paper investigates whether access to improved sources of water and sanitation is an effective ―treatment‖ for the incidence of diarrhea among children under five years of age in Egypt. The qualitative component of the paper draws on in-depth interviews and focus group discussions with residents of three governorates to present an ac...

The objective of this paper is to describe an autoregressive regression framework with respect to metered sewer flow and simultaneous rainfall data series. The main purpose is to produce more reliable estimates for rain derived inflow and infiltration RDII characteristics in a sanitary sewer basin. The discussion is centered at three specific points: 1 a justification for an autoregressive erro...

As one of major underground pipelines, sewerage is an important infrastructure in any modern city. The most common problem occurring in sewerage is leaking, whose position and failure level is typically identified through closed circuit television (CCTV) inspection in order to facilitate rehabilitation process. This paper proposes a novel method of computer vision, morphological segmentation ba...

OATAO is an open access repository that collects the work of Toulouse researchers and makes it freely available over the web where possible. Impact of dry weather discharges on annual pollution from a separate storm sewer in Toulouse, France. • Dry weather discharges from storm sewers have an impact on annual pollution load. • The more urbanized the outlet is, the more important the pollution i...

Reliable estimation of sewage flow rates is essential for the proper design of sewers, pumping stations, and treatment plants. The design of the various components of the sewerage system should be based on the most critical flow rates with a focus on extremely low and peak flow rates that would be sustained for a duration related to the acceptable limits of behavior of the components under cons...

In order to investigate the characterization of runoff in storm sewer from various urban catchments, three monitoring systems at different spatial scales have been installed separately. They have been held since July 2010 in urban area of Beijing (China). The monitoring data revealed that chemical oxygen demand (COD), total suspended solids (TSS), total nitrogen (TN), total phosphorus (TP), and...

Background: Water resource management is a strategic issue in Qom city. Water scarcity is one of the most critical concerns of industrial estates. This study aimed to evaluate wastewater management in the Shokuhieh industrial park of Qom province in 2013. Methods: This is a descriptive cross-sectional study done by visiting the industrial units in person, completing questionnaires and analyzin...

In decision-making on sewer rehabilitation risk and uncertainty are not taken into account. However, the assessments on which the decisions are based are considerably affected by uncertainties on external inputs, system behaviour and effects. In this paper, a risk-based approach is presented considering uncertainty in sewer system dimensions, natural variability in rainfall and uncertainty in t...

Unfortunately, many small communities in Illinois are served by private septic systems that are failing, resulting in serious health problems for the community. These small rural communities are often populated by residents living on low to moderate incomes, who cannot afford the cost of a conventional sewer system. As funding sources become more scarce due to government budget cuts and a shift...