Chapter 7: Water Use and Conservation

Authors

Alfredo Fernandez-Gonzalez, University of Nevada, Las VegasFollow

Editors

Khaled A. Al-Sallal (Ed.)

Document Type

Book Section

Publication Date

4-25-2016

Publication Title

Low Energy Low Carbon Architecture: Recent Advances & Future Directions

Publisher

CRC Press

Publisher Location

Boca Raton, FL

First page number:

175

Last page number:

195

Abstract

As a way to reduce the negative impacts of urbanization, the concept of integrated site and building water management (ISBWM) was developed by mimicking the basis of the hydrologic cycle. ISBWM uses a series of onsite strategies that complement prudent decisions of water usage in daily human activities. The systems and strategies employed by the ISBWM approach can be applied to an individual site or to a series of sites in a neighborhood or building tract to take maximum advantage of all viable water harvesting and treatment sources to minimize the dependence on municipal, centralized water supply system.

Language

English

Repository Citation

Fernandez-Gonzalez, A. (2016). Chapter 7: Water Use and Conservation. In Khaled A. Al-Sallal (Ed.), Low Energy Low Carbon Architecture: Recent Advances & Future Directions 175-195. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.