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Water Efficiency Handbook: Identifying opportunities to increase water use efficiency in industry, buildings, and agriculture in the Arab world
This handbook was developed to assist water users identify and prioritize cost-effective water efficiency opportunities. It targets water use in residential and commercial buildings, industrial plants, and agricultural
farms. The handbook offers practical and proven methods to cut water consumption, and water costs, without sacrificing production, reliability, or comfort. By making this handbook available, water consumers at homes and water managers at institutional buildings, industrial sites and farms will be better informed about water efficiency retrofit opportunities, and will, therefore, be better prepared to develop a plan to take advantage of water savings.
This handbook was developed to assist water users identify and prioritize cost-effective water efficiency opportunities. It targets water use in residential and commercial buildings, industrial plants, and agriculturalfarms. The handbook offers practical and proven methods to cut water consumption, and water costs, without sacrificing production, reliability, or comfort. By making this handbook available, water consumers at homes and water managers at institutional buildings, industrial sites and farms will be better informed about water efficiency retrofit opportunities, and will, therefore, be better prepared to develop a plan to take advantage of water savings.
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FOREWORD
CHAPTER 1: Introduction
CHAPTER 2: Steps to improve water efficiency
CHAPTER 3: Water use efficiency in industry
CHAPTER 4: Water use efficiency in buildings
CHAPTER 5: Water use efficiency in agriculture
APPENDIX A: Case studies in water efficiency
APPENDIX B: Additional resources
APPENDIX C: References
Full Manual (7Mb)
About the authors
| Contact information |
AFED Secretary General Najib Saab
(email: info@afedonline.org) Phone: +961 1 321 800 ; Fax: +961 1 321 900 |
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| News type | Inbrief |
| File link |
http://www.afedonline.org/water%20efficiency%20manual/weh.htm |
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| Source of information | © 2010 Arab Forum for Environment and Development (AFED) |
| Keyword(s) | Water use efficiency |
| Subject(s) | AGRICULTURE , HYDRAULICS - HYDROLOGY , MEASUREMENTS AND INSTRUMENTATION , METHTODOLOGY - STATISTICS - DECISION AID , POLICY-WATER POLICY AND WATER MANAGEMENT , TOOL TERMS , WATER DEMAND |
| Relation | http://www.emwis.net/thematicdirs/news/2010/11/2010-report-arab-forum-environment-and-development-water-sustainable-management |
| Geographical coverage | Lebanon, Syria, Sudan, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Libya, Spain, Denmark, Netherlands, Mexico, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Oman, Yemen, Jordan, Palestine, Mauritania, Iraq, |
| News date | 09/11/2010 |
| Working language(s) | ENGLISH |
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