Can rainwater tanks meet multiple sustainability objectives? An assessment of water conservation, pollution reduction and frequent flows from rainwater tanks in sydney's marrickville LGA

WSUD 2012 - 7th International Conference on Water Sensitive Urban Design: Building the Water Sensitive Community, Final Program and Abstract Book

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Knights, D ^a   Hanley, C ^b   McAuley, A ^a  

^a Equatica Pty Ltd   (Australia)

^b Marrickville Council   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION BENEFITS; INCENTIVE SCHEMES; POLLUTANT LOADS; POLLUTION REDUCTION; REAL-TIME METERING; STORM WATER RUNOFF; URBAN AREAS; WATER QUALITY MONITORING;

POLLUTION; TANKS (CONTAINERS); WATER QUALITY;

WATER CONSERVATION;

EID: 84862006674     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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