A case study about “green infrastructure” to allow storm water soaking into the ground.
U.S. EPA (2008): Case Studies for Stormwater Management on Compacted, Contaminated Soils in Dense Urban Areas. Washington, DC: United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) URL [Accessed: 09.05.2019]
One of the most exciting new trends in water quality management today is the movement by many cities, counties, states, and private-sector developers toward the increased use of Low Impact Development (LID) to help protect and restore water quality. LID comprises a set of approaches and practices that are designed to reduce runoff of water and pollutants from the site at which they are generated. By means of infiltration, evapotranspiration, and reuse of rainwater, LID techniques manage water and water pollutants at the source and thereby prevent or reduce the impact of development on rivers, streams, lakes, coastal waters, and ground water.
U.S. EPA (2007): Reducing Stormwater Costs through Low Impact Development (LID) Strategies and Practices. Washington, DC: United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) URL [Accessed: 09.05.2019]
Greywater towers were selected as one of the methods that can be adopted to treat and safely reuse greywater for Arba Minch town and eight such units were constructed. Awareness about the unit has been raised in the community of Arba Minch and promising demand has been created.
SHEWA, W.A. GELETA, B.G. (2009): Greywater Tower, Arba Minch, Ethiopia. Draft. (= SuSanA - Case Studies ). Eschborn: Sustainable Sanitation Alliance (SuSanA) URL [Accessed: 09.05.2019]
In this document, the Need project describes the large-scale hydropower plants and summarizes technical aspects as well as some economic and environmental aspects.
THE NEED PROJECT (2011): Hydropower Fact Sheet. Manassas, Virginia: The Need Project URL [Accessed: 09.05.2019]
This manual, Guidelines for Human Settlement Planning and Design, provides a guiding vision for South African settlement formation, addressing the qualities that should be sought after in our human settlements, and providing guidance on how these can be achieved. The publication has been developed over a period of more than two years through a participative process in which stakeholders and experts from various disciplines were involved.
CSIR (2000): Guidelines for Human Settlement Planning and Design. Pretoria: CSIR Building and Construction Technology, Vol II, Chapter 6, pp.1-39 URL [Accessed: 09.05.2019]
This report presents the results of a study aiming to construct a model for the transfer and adaptation of watermills from Britain to Australia in the nineteenth century. It provides a model and a number of factors to consider when a country decides to import a technology from another country.
PEARSON, W. (1996): Water Power in Dry Continent: The Transfer of Watermill Technology from Britain to Australia in the Nineteenth Century. In: Australasian Historical Archaeology: Volume 14 , 46-62. URL [Accessed: 09.05.2019]
This report describes the development of local capacities in planning, design, implementation and operation of Small-scale hydropower systems at local and sub-regional scale in Burundi, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda.
KASSANA, L. MASHAURI, D. CHAMBEGA, D.G. MKILAHA, I.S.N. MHILU, C.F. NGELEJA, J. NGELEJA, J. MAKHANU, S. CASIMIR, M. KIZZA, M. MUNIIMA, K. MTALO, F. PETRY, B. (2005): Small Scale Hydropower for Rural Development. Cairo, Egypt: Nile Basin Capacity Building Network (NBCBN) URL [Accessed: 09.05.2019]
This presentation gives information on micro hydro projects, which includes definitions, power calculations and some technical aspects to civil works.
EERE (2011): Types of Hydro Power Facilities. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy (EERE) URL [Accessed: 09.05.2019]
This publication is a manual about constructed wetlands used for stormwater management.
METROCOUNCIL (n.y): Constructed Wetlands: Stormwater Wetlands. Saint Paul: Metropolitan Council URL [Accessed: 09.05.2019]
This guide provides a concise technical guide to build a micro hydro system, with sufficient technological knowledge. Aspects such as capacity, equipment and permissions are discussed in this document. This report provides a special section on water wheels.
HILL, P. (2009): How to Develop a Micro Hydro Scheme. West Yorks, U.K.: Alternative Technology Centre URL [Accessed: 09.05.2019]
The guideline document (the “Toolbox”) is intended to provide the above mentioned groups with a selection of methods and tools to mitigate the effects of stormwater run-off from countryside living areas. All these councils are committed to a policy of avoiding, remedying or mitigating the adverse effects from stormwater discharges on the receiving environment to the greatest extent possible.
ARC (2010): The Countryside Living Toolbox: A Guide for the Management of Stormwater Discharges in Countryside Living Areas in the Auckland Region. Auckland: Auckland Regional Council (ARC) URL [Accessed: 09.05.2019]
This document presents general specifications on low head and small-scale hydroelectric power plants.
TOSHIBA (2011): Hydro-eKids Micro Hydro Power Generating Equipment. Tokyo: Toshiba Corporation URL [Accessed: 09.05.2019]
This book describes in an easy-to-understand and picture-based way how to construct three different low cost sanitation solutions, namely arborloos, fossa alterna and urine diversion toilets.
MORGAN, P. EcoSanRes (2007): Toilets That Make Compost . Stockholm: Stockholm Environment Institute URL [Accessed: 09.05.2019]
The present research paper discusses the health, environment and agriculture benefits of micro hydropower to final users in Nepal.
ANUP, G. ; BRYCESON, I. ; SANG-EUN, O. (2011): Micro-Hydropower: A Promising Decentralized Renewable Technology and its Impact on Rural Livelihoods. In: Scientific Research and Essays : Volume 6 , 1240-1248. URL [Accessed: 09.05.2019]
The present report discusses a questionnaire approach to determine the effects of hydropower in terms of environmental and social impacts and the efficiency of applied mitigation measures implemented worldwide. A key element of this work was a questionnaire survey based on five topics: identification of key issues, verification of impacts, mitigation measures and regulatory approval process.
INTERNATIONAL ENERGY AGENCY (2000): Hydropower and the Environment: Survey of the Environmental and Social Impacts and the effectiveness of Mitigation Measures in Hydropower Development. Paris: International Energy Agency (IEA) URL [Accessed: 09.05.2019]