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Sajeeve Latif, Mohammad A. Alim, Ataur Rahman and Md Mahmudul Haque
The supply of safe drinking water to rural communities has always been challenging, unlike in most large cities where government authorities have constructed central water supply systems. In many rural areas, primary water sources such as surface water a...
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Monzur Alam Imteaz, Abdullah Gokhan Yilmaz, Cristina Santos and Amimul Ahsan
Most of the studies on rainwater harvesting analysis present the outcomes for particular cities, representing a single set of results for a specific city. However, in reality, significant spatial and weather variabilities may exist, due to which presenti...
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Mariana Martínez-Castrejón, Enrique J. Flores-Munguía, Oscar Talavera-Mendoza, América L. Rodríguez-Herrera, Omar Solorza-Feria, Osbelia Alcaraz-Morales, Jazmin A. López-Díaz and Giovanni Hernández-Flores
Climate change, urbanization, and population growth, particularly in urban areas such as Acapulco, Mexico, put pressure on water availability, where although surrounded by water, the inhabitants lack enough good-quality water, especially in the rainy sea...
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Ruth Quinn, Peter Melville-Shreeve, David Butler and Virginia Stovin
Rainwater harvesting systems are often used as both an alternative water source and a stormwater management tool. Many studies have focused on the water-saving potential of these systems, but research into aspects that impact stormwater retention?such as...
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Fausto A. Canales, Joanna Gwozdziej-Mazur, Piotr Jadwiszczak, Joanna Struk-Sokolowska, Katarzyna Wartalska, Marcin Wdowikowski and Bartosz Kazmierczak
Rainwater harvesting (RWH) for domestic uses is widely regarded as an economic and ecological solution in water conservation and storm management programs. This paper aims at evaluating long-term trends in 20-day cumulative rainfall periods per year in P...
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Nibal Al-Batsh, Issam A. Al-Khatib, Subha Ghannam, Fathi Anayah, Shehdeh Jodeh, Ghadir Hanbali, Bayan Khalaf and Michael van der Valk
Yatta is a town located nine kilometers south of Hebron city in the West Bank of Palestine. The town houses over 100,000 people of which 49% are females and has a population that doubles every 15 years. Yatta has been connected to a water network since 1...
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Violet Kisakye, Mary Akurut and Bart Van der Bruggen
This paper assesses the effect of climate change on reliability of rainwater harvesting systems for Kabarole district, Uganda, as predicted by 6 best performing global circulation models (GCMs). A daily water balance model was used to simulate the perfor...
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Nor Hafizi Md Lani, Zulkifli Yusop and Achmad Syafiuddin
The mismatch between freshwater demand and its availability is a major problem that causes global water scarcity. The exploration and utilization of rainwater seem to be viable options for minimizing the aforementioned issue. This manuscript reviews the ...
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María L. Fuentes-Galván, Josefina Ortiz Medel and Luz A. Arias Hernández
This study was carried out in rural communities in the state of Guanajuato, in central Mexico. A questionnaire was directly applied to users of rainwater (RW) to identify the uses, water consumption, and perception towards RW and traditional supply sourc...
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Parmeshwar Udmale, Hiroshi Ishidaira, Bhesh Raj Thapa and Narendra Man Shakya
United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 6 targets access to water and sanitation for all people in the next 15 years. However, for developing countries such as Nepal, it is more challenging to achieve this goal given its poor infrastructure and high ...
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