Impacts of scaling up water recycling and rainwater harvesting technologies on hydraulic and hydrological flows

dc.contributor.advisorJeffrey, Paul
dc.contributor.authorBertrand, Nathalie Marie-Ange
dc.date.accessioned2009-11-24T11:53:38Z
dc.date.available2009-11-24T11:53:38Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.description.abstractIn recent years, the increasing awareness of scarcity of water resources, indications of likely climate variability, and the increasing pressure to use available fresh water resources more efficiently have together reinforced the need to look at infrastructure solutions with due regard to environmental considerations and social impacts, present and future. There is a vital need to apply an integrated approach to catchment management to implement sustainable solutions to resolve issues such as water supply and sewerage, drainage and river flooding. Many potentials solutions are available to control water demand and manage flood problems. Greywater recycling and rainwater harvesting are novel technologies. However, their catchment scale impacts on hydraulic and hydrological flows are poorly understood. The research aim is to identify the hydrologic and hydraulic impacts of scaling up such technologies at catchment scale. For this particular study, a computer simulation model will be used to evaluate how increasing urbanisation, climate change and the implementation of greywater recycling and rainwater harvesting may alter the water balance within a representative catchment. To achieve these aims data from the Carrickmines catchment in Ireland have been collected; a simulation model has been adapted to carry out the study, the model has been calibrated and validated, results have been analysed, and finally, a sensitivity analysis has been carried out. The results show that rainwater harvesting systems are comparatively more effective than greywater recycling techniques in reducing flood frequency and intensity. Under five year return period rainfall events, the implementation of rainwater harvesting at any scale and number of units is a useful technique to control river flow and floods. However, the study also shows that under extreme conditions the efficiency of rainwater harvesting systems decreases. The study concludes that implementing the two technologies within a single catchment is not a solution to several forms of hydrological problem. The study shows that implementing rainwater harvesting or re-use technologies are a very useful way to protect local freshwater reserves and therefore conserve our environment.en_UK
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1826/4003
dc.language.isoenen_UK
dc.publisherCranfield Universityen_UK
dc.rights© Cranfield University, 2008. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced without the written permission of the copyright holder.en_UK
dc.subjectWater network modellingen_UK
dc.subjectgreywater recyclingen_UK
dc.subjectrainwater harvesting systemsen_UK
dc.subjectWater managementen_UK
dc.subjectcatchment scaleen_UK
dc.titleImpacts of scaling up water recycling and rainwater harvesting technologies on hydraulic and hydrological flowsen_UK
dc.typeThesis or dissertationen_UK
dc.type.qualificationlevelDoctoralen_UK
dc.type.qualificationnamePhDen_UK

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