Investigation of water quality and quantity of five rainwater tanks in Western Sydney Australia

World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2010: Challenges of Change - Proceedings of the World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 3933-3941

  Van Der Sterren, M ^a,b   Rahman, A ^a   Ryan, G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b Barker Ryan Consulting Pty Ltd   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Rainfall; Water quality; Water tanks

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; FULL SCALE; NEW SOUTH WALES; NEW SOUTH WALES , AUSTRALIA; ON-SITE DETENTION; QUALITY MODELING; RAINFALL; RAINFALL EVENT; RETENTION LEVELS; STORMWATER QUANTITY; URBAN STORMWATER; WATER DEMAND; WATER QUANTITIES; WATER USE;

RAIN; RUNOFF; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; WATER RESOURCES; WATER SUPPLY;

WATER TANKS;

EID: 77954971913     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1061/41114(371)400     Document Type: Conference Paper

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