Rainwater harvesting potential for southwest Nigeria using daily water balance model

Resources, Conservation and Recycling

Volumn 62, Issue , 2012, Pages 51-55

  Imteaz, Monzur Alam ^a   Adeboye, Omotayo B ^b,c   Rayburg, Scott ^a   Shanableh, Abdallah ^d  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b OBAFEMI AWOLOWO UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

^c UNESCO IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SHARJAH   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Dry year and optimum tank size; Rainwater tank; Reliability; Water balance model

Indexed keywords

CURRENT ANALYSIS; DAILY RAINFALL; DEVELOPED MODEL; HIGH RELIABILITY; HOUSEHOLD WATER; LOSS FACTOR; LOW DEMAND; NIGERIA; OPTIMISATION CRITERION; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; RAIN WATER HARVESTING; RAINFALL DATA; RAINWATER TANK; STORAGE VOLUMES; TANK SIZE; TOILET FLUSHING; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER BALANCE MODELS;

CLIMATE MODELS; RAIN; RELIABILITY; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; TANKS (CONTAINERS);

FACTOR ANALYSIS;

RAIN;

HARVESTING; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RAINWATER; SPREADSHEET; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER BUDGET; WATER USE;

ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HARVESTING; HOUSEHOLD; METHODOLOGY; NIGERIA; RAINWATER HARVESTING; RAINWATER TANK; RELIABILITY; TANK; WASTE WATER RECYCLING; WATER BALANCE MODEL; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SUPPLY; WATER TREATMENT;

NIGERIA;

EID: 84859790466     PISSN: 09213449     EISSN: 18790658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resconrec.2012.02.007     Document Type: Article

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