Assessing the potential for rainwater harvesting

Water Resources Management

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2129-2137

  Aladenola, Olanike Olowoiya ^a   Adeboye, Omotayo B ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b OBAFEMI AWOLOWO UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Domestic use; Rainwater harvesting; Water savings

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL RAINFALL; DOMESTIC USE; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; INTRA-ANNUAL VARIABILITY; NIGERIA; PEAK PERIOD; RAIN WATER HARVESTING; WATER DEMAND; WATER SAVING;

CLEANING; CLIMATE CHANGE; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HARVESTING; WATER SUPPLY; WATER SUPPLY SYSTEMS;

RAIN;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE EFFECT; RAINFALL; RAINWATER; WATER DEMAND; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER RESOURCE; WATER SUPPLY; WATER USE;

ABEOKUTA; NIGERIA; OGUN;

EID: 77955049298     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-009-9542-y     Document Type: Article

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