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A Study on the Potenil of Rainwater Harvesting Practices to Mitigate Urban Floods

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dc.contributor.author Lanka, WMJ
dc.contributor.author Ranasinghe, TKGP
dc.contributor.author Herath, M
dc.date.accessioned 2022-09-12T08:38:23Z
dc.date.available 2022-09-12T08:38:23Z
dc.date.issued 2014-12
dc.identifier.issn 2012-6301 en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://dl.lib.uom.lk/handle/123/19030
dc.description.abstract Floods are a prominent issue and the challenge of urban flooding can be turned into an opportunity by adopting rainwater harvesting practices. Rainwater harvesting (RWH) works asa more reliable, cost effective and sustainable way. It is a mean of public contribution to mitigate urban floods rather than provide a supplementary source of water. The catchment area, maximum rainfall intensity, extent of building roofs, potential runoff, and outflowof water and estimated capacity of rainwater system are the highlighted six important factors through the literature. Arc GIS hydrology tools, IDF curves, rational method, the Manning formula and water balance equation were adopted to calculate the above factors. The relationship between capacity of a rainwater harvesting system (y) and the extent of roof area (x) has been derived by an equation of y=0.024x. This proposed rainwater harvesting system is potentially applied either in the form of individual building units or as a common water detention pond. This study has focused on identifying an appropriate mechanism to practice rainwater harvesting to mitigate urban floods in Colombo. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Faculty of Architecture University of Moratuwa en_US
dc.subject Urban Floods en_US
dc.subject Run-off Control
dc.subject Volume of RWH System
dc.title A Study on the Potenil of Rainwater Harvesting Practices to Mitigate Urban Floods en_US
dc.type Article-Full-text en_US
dc.identifier.year 2014 en_US
dc.identifier.journal Research Journal of the Faculty of Architecture en_US
dc.identifier.issue 01 en_US
dc.identifier.volume 06 en_US
dc.identifier.pgnos 237-243 en_US
dc.identifier.email wasalajayamali@gmail.com en_US
dc.identifier.email gayaniprasadika@gmail.com en_US
dc.identifier.email malaniherath@yahoo.ca en_US


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