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Maintaining rainwater harvesting practices in southern Lebanon : the kaza of Tyre
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
Despite relatively extensive surface water and groundwater networks, along with abundant rainfall, Lebanon is facing water scarcity due to factors such as pollution of freshwater resources, climate change, population growth, ...
OpenLS for indoor positioning : strategies for standardizing location based services for indoor use
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
The combination of location positioning technologies such as GPS and initiatives like the US Federal Communications Commission's E911 telecommunication initiatives has generated a lot of interest in applications and services ...
Household-level point-of-use water filtration system in Haiti : strategies for program management and sustainability
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
The traditional approach of providing safe drinking water supplies through centralized large-scale systems has proven ineffective, costly, and elusive, particularly in serving the needs of rural populations in developing ...
Household adoption of ecological sanitation : an assessment of agricultural value and user perspectives in Nyanza Province, Kenya
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)
Ecological sanitation, or ecosan, refers to a range of sanitation technologies in which human excreta is recovered and retained on-site, and eventually reused. However, when a culture does not have a tradition of reusing ...