Publications by authors named "Deshbhushan Patil"
A top-down spatial scenario approach for identifying the locations of rainwater harvesting sites in an urban region.
Environ Sci Pollut Res Int
October 2024
Article Synopsis
- * Traditional bottom-up approaches identify viable RWH locations using geographic criteria, while this study introduces a top-down methodology based on digital elevation models to pinpoint potential RWH sites in urban areas.
- * The case study in Jaipur, India, revealed that RWH locations within a 1 km flow-contributing area have the highest rainwater storage potential (over 403 million cubic meters), compared to a significantly lower potential with a 10 km area (about 170 million cubic meters).
Rainwater harvesting (RWH) has proven to be an efficient method of curtailing water scarcity by substituting it as an alternative water supply which also helps to mitigate the risk of flooding caused due to heavy rainfall. While overcoming the water-related issues, implementation and identifying potential harvesting sites in urban areas on a large scale has always been challenging, necessitating additional research and constraint considerations. The proposed study implements a basin-wide approach and creates a tool using the geographical information system (GIS) to pinpoint site locations to collect rainstorm water.
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