Rainwater harvesting on rooves is a sustainable solution for global water scarcity. The contamination of roofing materials due to biological organisms and other environmental pollutants limits the utilization roof harvested rainwater domestic industrial applications. Similarly, leads several aesthetic, functional, concerns highlighting importance developing green self-cleaning technology Solar-...

This paper attempts to describe the state of Rainwater Harvesting (RWH) techniques and the contributions of GIS and Remote Sensing (RS) technologies for RWH in The Syrian Desert (AL-Badia). Studies were conducted using physiographic factors of The Syrian Desert (the natural factors, the climatic factors, the pastoral cover, and animal wealth) for the applications of GIS and Remote sensing techn...

An investigation of atmospheric mercury was conducted in the urban coastal zone of the Gulf of Gdansk (Baltic Sea, Poland) in 2008. Rainwater samples were collected in bulk samplers and Hg concentration was determined using AAS method. Total mercury concentration ranged from 1.9 to 14.8 ng l(-1) (the mean was 8.3 ng l(-1) with standard deviation ±3.7), out of which about 34 % were water-soluble...

BACKGROUND In Brazil, about two million people living in rural semiarid regions were benefited with the construction of rainwater cement cisterns, as an initiative from the program "One Million Cisterns" (P1MC). Nevertheless, few epidemiological studies have been conducted to assess health risks or protection effects associated with consumption of this water source. The aim of this study was to...

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...