People living in arid and semi-arid areas with highly variable rainfall and unforeseeable periods of droughts or floods are severely affected by water shortages and often have …
Water shortage is a concern in arid and semi-arid regions across the globe due to their lack of precipitation and unpredictable rainfall patterns. In the past few decades, many …
Rainwater Harvesting (RWH) is becoming one of the most promising alternative sources of fresh water which can be potentially captured and utilized, particularly in arid and semi-arid …
Currently, desertification is a major problem in the western desert of Iraq. The harsh nature, remoteness, and size of the desert make it difficult and expensive to monitor and mitigate …
SH Erena, H Worku - Geoenvironmental Disasters, 2018 - Springer
Background In flood prone areas, understanding flood causing factors, assessing the flood induced risks and adopting landscape based mitigation strategies can increase the …
RS Wu, GLL Molina, F Hussain - Water Resources Management, 2018 - Springer
The Guatemala's rural population have limited resources, high vulnerability to climate change, traditional agriculture practices and adversely affected by water scarcity. These …
MA Khudhair, KN Sayl, Y Darama - IOP Conference series …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Rainfall is a key source to diminish the problem of water scarcity in the arid and semi-arid regions. Rainwater harvesting is considered an imperious tool for rainwater conservation …
Water is a key natural resource on earth, especially in arid and semi-arid regions with limited rainfall amounts. The impact of drought could be alleviated via constructing dams to ensure …
This study introduces an improved rainwater harvesting (RWH) suitability model to help the implementation of agro-forestry projects (irrigation, wildfire combat) in catchments. The …