9th
International Rainwater Catchment Systems Conference
"Rainwater
Catchment: An Answer to the Water Scarcity of the Next Millennium"
Petrolina, Brazil - July 1999
All
abstracts (PDF 310kb)
Topics
1.
Strategy for Rainwater Utilization in the Next Millennium
2.
Worldwide Experiences of Rainwater Catchment Systems
3.
Rainwater Catchment and Droughts
4.
Technology of Rainwater Catchment Systems
5.
Political and Socio-economic Aspects of Rainwater Catchment Systems
6.
Gender and Community Related Aspects of Rainwater Catchment Systems
7.
Water Quality
8.
Rainwater Catchment Systems in Agriculture
9.
Rainwater Catchment Systems in Urban Areas
10.
Rainwater Runoff Management
11.
Hydrology-Related Issues
12.
Posters
1.
Strategy for Rainwater Utilization in the Next Millennium
| 1.1 |
Trends
in Water Demands and the Role of Rainwater Catchment Systems
in the Next Millennium
Adhityan
Appan
Abstract,
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to members (11pp, 44kb) |
| 1.2 |
Division
Study of Rainwater Utilization in China
Haisheng Mou, Huilin Wang
& Hsiang-te Kung
Abstract,
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available to members (12pp, 150kb) |
| 1.3
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Hawaii
Rainwater Catchment Systems Development: Draft Guidelines
Yu-Si Fok, Leroy
F. Heitz & Henry H. Smith
Abstract,
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to members (7pp, 28kb) |
| 1.4 |
Sri
Lanka: Problems and prospects of rainwater catchment for the
21st Century
Rajindra
de Silva Ariyabandu
Abstract, PDF
of full document available to members (6pp, 24kb) |
| 1.5 |
Water
Potentials in the Brazilian Semiarid Zone: Perspectives for
an Efficient Use
Aldo
da C. Rebouças
Abstract,
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to members (8pp, 38kb) |
| 1.6 |
Rainwater
Harvesting Possibilities and Challenges in Kenya
Julius M. Wanyonyi
Abstract, PDF
of full document available to members (7pp, 30kb) |
| 1.7
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Rainwater
Catchment in Nepal: An Answer to the Water Scarcity of the
Next Millennium
Ramesh
C. Bohara
Abstract,
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to members (7pp, 28kb) |
| 1.8 |
Sustainable
Water Resources Management in Arid and Semiarid Regions of
the World: A Case Study in Iran
Massoud
Goodarzi & Amir Hossein Charkhabi
Abstract,
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to members (6pp, 28kb) |
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2.
Wordwide Experiences of Rainwater Catchment Systems
| 2.1 |
Promotion
of Rainwater Catchment in Southern Africa
Rob
Dyer
Abstract,
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to members (6pp, 27kb) |
| 2.2 |
Considerations
for developing guidelines for rainwater catchment systems
in the U.S. Virgin Islands
Henry H. Smith, Yu-Si Fok
& Leroy F. Heitz
Abstract,
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available to members (6pp, 25kb) |
| 2.3
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Rainwater
Catchment in the Loess Plateau of Gansu, China and its Significance
Zhu Qiang &
Li Yuanhong
Abstract,
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to members (8pp, 480kb) |
| 2.4 |
Ancient
And Contemporary Water Catchment Systems In Mexico
Manuel Anaya Garduño
Abstract,
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to members (7pp, 34kb) |
| 2.5
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Rainwater
Utilization and Its Prospect in the Taihang Mountains, China
Wanjun Zhang & Zhijun
Liu
Abstract,
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to members (7pp, 29kb) |
| 2.6 |
Experiences
Gained in the Development of Rainwater Catchment in Tanzania
Datius G. Rutashobya
Abstract, PDF
of full document available to members (7pp, 110kb) |
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3.
Rainwater Catchment and Droughts
| 3.1
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El Niño's
Impact on Rainwater Catchment in Brazil's Semiarid Northeast
Vicente de Paulo Rodrigues
da Silva, Hiran de Melo, Antônio Heriberto de Castro
Teixeira & José Homero Feitosa Cavalcanti
Abstract, PDF
of full document available to members (5pp, 720kb)
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| 3.2 |
Potential
Benefits of Tropical Seasonal Rainfall Forecasting for Rainwater
Catchment Systems
Carlos Oliveira Galvão
& Robin T. Clarke
Abstract,
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available to members (6pp, 40kb) |
| 3.3 |
Drought
Criteria
Richard
J. Heggen
Abstract,
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to members (6pp, 32kb) |
| 3.4 |
Modelling
of Rainwater Catchment and Utilization on Farmsteads in Sipili,
Kenya
Nicholas Kiggundu & R. K. Muni
Abstract,
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to members (6pp, 42kb) |
| 3.5
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Anticipatory
Conservation Based Drought Management of Water Supply Reservoirs
Masihollah Adibi & M.
A. Collins
Abstract,
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to members (7pp, 47kb) |
| 3.6 |
Serial
Water Balance of Petrolina, Pernambuco-Brazil
Antônio
Heriberto de Castro Teixeira & Bernardo Barbosa da Silva
Abstract, PDF
of full document available to members (6pp, 35kb) |
| 3.7 |
Rainfall
Harvesting for Indigenous Health in Australia
Carol
Conway, Charles Nicholson, Gabriele Bammer, Alan Wade &
Graham Henderson
Abstract,
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to members (8pp, 66kb) |
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4.
Technology of Rainwater Catchment Systems
| 4.1 |
Affordable
Roofwater Harvesting in the Humid Tropics
Terry
Thomas & Dai Rees
Abstract,
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to members (8pp, 76kb) |
| 4.2 |
Abanbars
as a Trustable Method of Water Harvesting
Nasser Talebbeydokhti &
B.Hooshyari
Abstract,
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available to members (6pp, 26kb) |
| 4.3 |
Sri
Lanka's Experiences with Low Cost Extraction Hand Pump, Storage
Cover, First Flush and Guttering in Domestic Rainwater Catchment
Systems
Devapriya
Hapugoda
Abstract,
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to members (4pp, 17kb) |
| 4.4 |
Construction
of Circular Rainwater Cisterns Using Metal Forms
Elizabeth Szilassy
Abstract,
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to members (6pp, 57kb) |
| 4.5
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Rain
Collection as Water Source For Small Rural Communities in
Chiapas, Mexico (A case study: technical and social aspects
for transferring of rural technology in Mexico)
Martín Mundo-Molina,
Polioptro Martínez Austria, Romeo Ballinas Avendaño,
Miguel Raúl Ponce & Edgar Rafael Penagos
Abstract,
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to members (4pp, 60kb) |
| 4.6 |
Evaluation
of rainwater storage alternatives on San Andrés Island,
Colombia
David
Garcés Córdoba & Opal Bent
Abstract,
PDF of full document available
to members (5pp, 26kb) |
| 4.7 |
Technical
Presentation of Various Types of Cisterns Built in the Rural
Communities of the Semiarid Region of Brazil
Johann
Gnadlinger
Abstract,
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to members (11pp, 460kb) |
| 4.8
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Development
of Rooftop Rainwater Catchment System Design Criteria for
Pohnpei State, Federated States of Micronesia
Dr.
Leroy F. Heitz, Dr. Yu Si Fok & Dr Henry Smith
Abstract,
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to members (7pp, 31kb) |
| 4.9 |
Influence
of Rainfall Amount and Distribution on Rainwater Catchment
System Design
David
W. Waweru
Abstract,
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to members (4pp, 19kb) |
| 4.10 |
Optimization
of rainwater catchment systems design parameters in the arid
and semiarid lands of Kenya
Stephen
N. Ngigi
Abstract,
PDF of full document available
to members (8pp, 55kb) |
| 4.11 |
The
Sizing of Rainwater Stores Using Behavioural Models
Alan Fewkes & D Butler
Abstract,
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to members (12pp, 70kb) |
| 4.12 |
Determination
of the Optimum Volume of a Cistern Applied to San Andres Island,
Colombia
David
Garcés Córdoba
Abstract,
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to members (5pp, 27kb) |
| 4.13
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Effective
Application of First Flush Device to Improve Rainwater Quality
Mahinda Kurukulasuriya
Abstract,
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to members (5pp, 18kb) |
| 4.14 |
Barrier
to the Effectiveness of Rainwater Catchment Systems
James Mwami
Abstract,
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to members (6pp, 24kb) |
| 4.15 |
An Assessment
of the Damage Sustained by the Gareh Bygone Plain Artificial
Recharge of Groundwater System in the Deluge of 1995
Gholam Reza Rahbar & Sayyed
Ahang Kowsar
Abstract,
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to members (5pp, 19kb) |
| 4.16 |
Damming
and Storing of Rainwater in Central Brazil
Luciano
Cordoval de Barros
Abstract,
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to members (8pp, 480kb) |
| 4.17 |
Technologies
for Enhancing Ground Water Recharge
Subhra
Chakravarty
Abstract,
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to members (5pp, 21kb) |
| 4.18 |
Micro-Minor
Methods of Rainwater Conservation and Groundwater Recharge
V.N. Shroff & R.K. Katiyar
Abstract,
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to members (5pp, 20kb) |
| 4.19 |
Underground
Dams: A Pernambuco (Brazil) Experience
José
Almir Cirilo & Waldir Duarte Costa
Abstract,
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to members (10pp, 380kb) |
| 4.20 |
Improving
Environmental Characteristics in a Wide Area Around a Flood
Water Spreading System, "A case study"
Masoud Nejabat
Abstract,
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to members (4pp, 230kb) |
| 4.21 |
Rock
Tanks, Dugouts and Riverbed Dugouts: Three Traditional Systems
of Rainwater Catchment in the Brazilian Northeast
Haroldo Schistek
Abstract,
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to members (8pp, 420kb) |
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5.
Political and Socio-economic Aspects of Rainwater Catchment Systems
| 5.1 |
Peasants
Attitudes Towards Participation in Floodwater Spreading Systems
Development - The Case of the Gareh Bygone Project
Assadollah Bakhtiar
Abstract, PDF
of full document available to members (4pp, 18kb)
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| 5.2 |
Rainwater
Harvesting and Poverty Alleviation, Laikipia Experience
John Mbugua
Abstract,
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available to members (6pp, 26kb) |
| 5.3 |
Political
and Socio-Economic Dimensions of Rainwater Catchment on the
West Bank - Palestine
Samar
Michael Husary, Abedul Rahman Tamimi, Salam Rihan & Ahmad
Allan
Abstract,
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to members (9pp, 37kb) |
| 5.4
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Building
Cisterns in Campo Alegre de Lourdes, Bahia--Living with the
Brazilian Semiarid Climate
Maria
Salete Pereira & Armínio de Deus Braga
Abstract, PDF
of full document available to members (8pp, 30kb) |
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6.
Gender and Community Related Aspects of Rainwater Catchment Systems
| 6.1 |
Alternative
Loans for the Construction of Domestic Cisterns in the Semiarid
Region of the State of Paraiba, Brazil
Fabrizio
Casaretti
Abstract,
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to members (7pp, 39kb) |
| 6.2
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Women
in Community Communication in the Watershed
Jessica Calfoforo Salas
Abstract,
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available to members (6pp, 25kb) |
| 6.3
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Community
Management of Water Harvesting Structures
Johnson
Ouko
Abstract,
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to members (6pp, 24kb) |
| 6.4
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Rainwater
Collection: An Easy Way to Overcome the Chronic and Growing
Shortage of Water of the Albanian Rural Family
Hysen Cobani
Abstract,
PDF of full document available
to members (6pp, 190kb) |
| 6.5
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Rainwater
Catchment: Women and Gender Participation in Zimbabwe
Sipiwe Dewa
Abstract,
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to members (5pp, 20kb) |
| 6.6 |
Ask
the People: Experience of Makong'endela: Rock Catchment Dam
in the Masasi District, Tanzania
Shaib
H. Geugeu
Abstract,
PDF of full document available
to members (4pp, 18kb) |
| 6.7 |
Caritas'
Domestic Cistern Program for the Brazilian Semiarid Zones:
A Simple Initiative With a Great Result
Ivo
Poletto
Abstract,
PDF of full document available
to members (4pp, 24kb) |
| 6.8
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The
Role of Women in Water Development
Millie
N. Ouma & Julius M. Wanyonyi
Abstract,
PDF of full document available
to members (4pp, 17kb) |
| 6.9 |
Rainwater
Catchment in Brazil's Rural Semiarid Tropics: A Grassroots'
Approach
Johann
Gnadlinger
Abstract,
PDF of full document available
to members (7pp, 490kb) |
| 6.10 |
Food
Security Through Rainwater Catchment
Sudhirendar
Sharma
Abstract,
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to members (4pp, 19kb) |
| 6.11 |
Rural
People and Water Resource Management
Khosrow
Movahed
Abstract,
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to members (2pp, 420kb) |
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7.
Water Quality
8.
Rainwater Catchment Systems in Agriculture
| 8.1 |
Strategic
Water Development in Rural Kenya - The Importance of Rainwater
Catchments
G.K.
Bambrah
Abstract,
PDF of full document available
to members (7pp, 26kb) |
| 8.2 |
Efficient
Use of Rainwater in Irrigation in Southwestern Saudi Arabia
Abdulaziz S. Al-Turbak
Abstract,
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available to members (6pp, 48kb) |
| 8.3 |
Rainwater
Catchment Techniques in Burkina Faso: Research Status and
Development Priorities
Léopold
Some Inera
Abstract,
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to members (6pp, 27kb) |
| 8.4
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Small-scale
Water Management in Farming Systems in the Brazilian Arid
Zones: What Is Being Done and How to Improve Its Application
Everaldo Rocha Porto, Aderaldo de Souza Silva, José
Barbosa dos Anjos, Luiza Teixeira de Lima Brito & Paulo
Roberto Coelho Lopes
Abstract,
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to members (13pp, 380kb) |
| 8.5
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The
Assessment of Agricultural Rainwater Catchment Systems in
Mudstone Areas
S.C.
Chu, T.Y. Horng, L.J. Chen, W.L. Huang, C.H. Hsu & Y.C.
Huang
Abstract,
PDF of full document available
to members (8pp, 29kb) |
| 8.6
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Methods
of "In Situ" Rainwater Catchment
José
Barbosa dos Anjos, Paulo Roberto Coelho Lopes, Luiza Teixeira
de Lima & Maria Sônia Lopes da Silva
Abstract, PDF
of full document available to members (8pp, 110kb) |
| 8.7 |
Maintenance
of Productive Soil Capacity Through "in situ" Rainwater
Catchment Systems
Roberto
Coelho Lopes, José Barbosa dos Anjos, Aderaldo de Souza
Silva, Everaldo Rocha Porto, Maria Sonia Lopes da Silva &
Gilberto Gomes Cordeiro
Abstract,
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to members (6pp, 100kb) |
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9.
Rainwater Catchment Systems in Urban Areas
| 9.1 |
Local
Governments' Financial Assistance for Rainwater Utilization
in Japan
Ichiro Kita, Kouichi Takeyama, Atsuo
Takeuchi & Kunihiko Kitamura
Abstract, PDF
of full document available to members (5pp, 22kb)
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| 9.2 |
Rainwater
as a Source in an Innovative Urban Dwelling
Donald H. Waller, R. Paloheimo, R.
S. Scott, R. LeCraw & A. R. Townshend
Abstract, PDF
of full document available to members (6pp, 20kb) |
| 9.3 |
The
Study for Influencing Factors of Urban Rainwater Catchment
System Capacity
S.C. Chu, C.H. Liaw, W.L. Huang, S.K.
Hsu, Y.L. Tsai & J.J. Kuo
Abstract, PDF
of full document available to members (8pp, 45kb) |
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10.
Rainwater Runoff Management
| 10.1 |
Estimation
of Water Use by Vegetation Barriers Based on Climatological
Factors and Soil Moisture Levels
Wim Spaan, J. Ringersma, L. Stroosnijder & A. Sikking
Abstract,
PDF of full document available
to members (6pp, 37kb) |
| 10.2
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Rainfall
Runoff and Sediment Reduction Effect of Hedgerow Plants
on Purple Soil Slopeland
Cai Qiangguo & K. F.
Andrew Lo
Abstract,
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available to members (11pp, 40kb) |
| 10.3 |
The
Effect of Spatial Averaging of Rainfall on Erosion at the
Catchment Scale
Yaghoub
Norouzi Banis
Abstract,
PDF of full document available
to members (9pp, 40kb) |
| 10.4 |
Hydrological
Regularization in Alluvial Areas-A Case Study in Brazil's
Semiarid Northeast
Abelardo A. Montenegro, Suzana M. Montenegro & Rae Mackay
Abstract,
PDF of full document available
to members (7pp, 120kb) |
| 10.5
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A Simulation
Model of Flood Runoff Utilization in Taiwan
K.F.
Andrew Lo
Abstract,
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to members (5pp, 41kb) |
| 10.6 |
Practical
Soil Science Applications for Estimating Runoff in Semiarid
Regions
Flávio
Hugo Barreto Batista da Silva, Antônio Cabral Cavalcanti
& Lúcia Raquel Queiroz Nogueira
Abstract,
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to members (8pp, 190kb) |
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11.
Hydrology-Related Issues
12.
Posters
| 12.1 |
The
Use of Moringa Trees
Mario Augusto de Almeida Neto
Abstract,
PDF of full document available
to members (6pp, 25kb) |
| 12.2
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Pintadas:
Experiences with Concrete Plate Cisterns
Edny Marcos Mendes
Abstract,
PDF of full document
available to members (2pp, 12kb) |
| 12.3
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Construction
of Wire Mesh Concrete Cistern in the Xixiaklhá Community
of the Indigenous Fulni-ô, Águas Belas - Pernambuco
Risoneide Gomes da Silva
Abstract,
PDF of full document available
to members (2pp, 11kb) |
| 12.4
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Nitrogen
Transport Through the Vadose Zone of the Bisheh Zard Aquifer
Mehrdad Mohammadnia, S.A.Kowsar
Abstract,
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available to members (5pp, 42kb) |
| 12.5
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Geologic
Nitrogen in the Agha Jari Formation of the Bisheh Zard Basin:
A Dilemma
Sayyed
Ahang Kowsar & Ali Reza Yazdian
Abstract,
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to members (5pp, 26kb) |
| 12.6
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Optimization
Analysis for Utilization of Rainwater in the Lake Land Plain
Lusheng Sha
Abstract,
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to members (6pp, 36kb) |
| 12.7
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Artificial
Recharge System and the Fate of Dissolved and Suspended Particles
in Floodwater: A Case Study in Damghan Playa, Iran
Majid Baghernejad
Abstract,
PDF of full document available
to members (6pp, 24kb) |
| 12.8
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Poços
Bate-estaca: Brazilian-Style Tube Wells
Humberto
Alves Júnior
Abstract,
PDF of full document available
to members (1pp, 8kb) |
| 12.9
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Who
drinks what: Potable Water Usage in South Australia
Jane S Heyworth
Abstract,
PDF of full document available
to members (5pp, 20kb) |
| 12.10 |
Big
Basket Dam (Gabiões Dam)
Gerardo
Vieira Lima
Abstract,
PDF of full document available
to members (4pp, 200kb) |
| 12.11
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A First
Flush Device for Rainwater Collected and Stored in Rural Cisterns
José Barbosa dos Anjos
Abstract,
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to members (3pp, 40kb) |
| 12.12
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Results
of Underground Temperature Surveys: Detecting the Groundwater
Vein-Stream at the Barikan Landslide Area in Iran
Gen Furuya, Atsuo Taleuchi,
Zieaodin Shoaei & Jafar Ghayoumian
Abstract,
PDF of full document available
to members (7pp, 310kb) |
| 12.13
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Underground
Temperature Survey for Detecting the Groundwater Vein-Stream
Atsuo Takeuchi & GenFuyuya
Abstract,
PDF of full document available
to members (8pp, 130kb) |
| 12.14
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The
Effect of the Storage Location on Collected Rainwater Quality
Kunihiko Kitamura
Abstract,
PDF of full document available
to members (6pp, 160kb) |
| 12.15
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Minimum
Cultivation with " in situ" Rainwater Catchment
Systems
Paulo Roberto
Coelho, Lopes José Barbosa dos Anjos, Aderaldo de Souza
Silva & Maria Sonia Lopes da Silva
Abstract,
PDF of full document available
to members (5pp, 50kb) |
| 12.16
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Rain
Water Catchment System of Mizoram State, India
Mr. Dunglena
Abstract,
PDF of full document available
to members (4pp, 18kb) |
| 12.17
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Use
of the Technologies of Collection of Runoff Water in the Semi-Arid
Region of the Brazilian Northeast
Nilton
de Brito Cavalcanti, Carlos Alberto Vasconcelos de Oliveira,
Luiza Teixeira de Lima Brito & Geraldo Milanez Resende
Abstract,
PDF of full document available
to members (8pp, 32kb) |
| 12.18
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Superficial
Runoff Induction in Microcatchments in the Brazilian Semiarid
Paulo Roberto Coelho Lopes,
Aderaldo de Souza Silva, José Barbosa dos Anjos &
Everaldo Rocha Porto
Abstract,
PDF of full document available
to members (1pp, 8kb) |
| 12.19
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Artificial
Recharge Methods of Kariz
Abdolkarim
Behnia
Abstract,
PDF of full document available
to members (3pp, 14kb) |
| 12.20 |
PVC
Hand Pumps
José
da Rocha Coqueiro & Caitité Bahia
Abstract,
PDF of full document available
to members (2pp, 34kb) |
| 12.21 |
Rainwater
Catchment: An Educational Program
Domingos Magalhães
Neto & Egnaldo Gomes Xavier
Abstract,
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available to members (2pp, 480kb) |
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