Framework for assessing the rainwater harvesting potential of residential buildings at a national level as an alternative water resource for domestic water supply in Taiwan

Water (Switzerland)

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 3224-3246

  Liaw, Chao Hsien ^a   Chiang, Yu Chuan ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Alternative water source; Cluster analysis; Domestic rainwater harvest; National scale; Rainwater potential

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HARVESTING; LAND USE; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; ROOFS; STREAM FLOW; WATER RESOURCES; WATER SUPPLY;

ALTERNATIVE WATER RESOURCE; ALTERNATIVE WATER SOURCES; BUILDING CHARACTERISTICS; LANDUSE CLASSIFICATIONS; NATIONAL SCALE; RAIN WATER HARVESTING; RAINWATER HARVESTS; RAINWATER POTENTIAL;

RAIN;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GIS; LAND USE PLANNING; RAINFALL; RAINWATER; STREAMFLOW; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER RESOURCE; WATER SUPPLY;

TAIWAN;

EID: 84920911380     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/w6103224     Document Type: Article

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