Water harvesting of urban runoff in Kuwait

Scientia Iranica

Volumn 17, Issue 3 A, 2010, Pages 236-243

  Zaghloul, N A ^a   Al Mutairi, B L ^b  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

^b Authority of Housing Welfare   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

Harvested runoff and its use as alternative water resource in arid and semi arid areas; PCSWMM 2004; Quantity and quality assessment of harvested runoff; Runo harvesting; Runoff and EXTRAN blocks; Storm water management model (SWMM); The explicit method; Unsteady gradually varied flow; Urban drainage and sewerage systems

Indexed keywords

DRAINAGE; HARVESTING; SEWAGE; SOCIAL ASPECTS; STORM SEWERS; STORMS; URBAN TRANSPORTATION; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY;

ALTERNATIVE WATER RESOURCE; EXPLICIT METHOD; GRADUALLY VARIED FLOW; PCSWMM 2004; QUALITY ASSESSMENT; SEWERAGE SYSTEM; STORMWATER MANAGEMENT MODEL(SWMM);

RUNOFF;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRAINAGE NETWORK; FLOODING; FLOW MODELING; NUMERICAL MODEL; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; RECYCLING; RUNOFF; STORMWATER; UNSTEADY FLOW; URBAN AREA; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY; WATER RESOURCE;

KUWAIT [MIDDLE EAST];

EID: 79951660357     PISSN: 10263098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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