Roof selection for rainwater harvesting: Quantity and quality assessments in Spain

Water Research

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 3245-3254

  Farreny, Ramon ^a,b   Morales Pinzón, Tito ^a,c   Guisasola, Albert ^d   Tayà, Carlota ^d   Rieradevall, Joan ^a,d   Gabarrell, Xavier ^a,d  

^a INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIA I TECNOLOGIA AMBIENTALS   (Spain)

^b IRTA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD TECNOLÓGICA DE PEREIRA   (Colombia)

^d UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

City ecodesign; Runoff coefficient; Stormwater runoff; Sustainable urbanism; Urban environment; Water management

Indexed keywords

HARVESTING; ORGANIC CARBON; PLANNING; RAIN; REGIONAL PLANNING; ROOFS; RUNOFF; SHEET METAL; STORM SEWERS; STORMS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; URBAN PLANNING; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SUPPLY;

RAIN WATER HARVESTING; RAINWATER HARVESTING IN URBAN AREAS; RUNOFF COEFFICIENTS; STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE; STORM WATER RUNOFF; SUSTAINABLE URBANISM; TOTAL SUSPENDED SOLIDS; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS;

BUILDING MATERIALS;

POLYCARBONATE; RAIN; RUNOFF; STORM WATER;

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; FLOODING; GRAVEL; LITERATURE REVIEW; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; RAINWATER; ROOF; RUNOFF; STORMWATER; SUSTAINABILITY; TOWN PLANNING; URBAN AREA; URBANIZATION; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY;

ARTICLE; CITY PLANNING; HARVESTING; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPAIN; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY;

SPAIN;

EID: 79955468509     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2011.03.036     Document Type: Article

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