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Stormwater management is quite a new topic in Slovakia as well as other countries of V4. There is no legal framework as well as standards or guidelines how to apply sustainable stormwater management techniques. As a consequence of repeated floods we are aware of a need for more effective stormwater handling. There are numerous techniques and approaches known around the world how to support sustainable stormwater management, especially in the urban areas, where the stormwater can cause significant damages. Nowadays we are more open to implement these new approaches especially in cases, where the effort is sustainability in stormwater management such as protection against floods and mitigation of pollution . The aim is to manage stormwater as close to source as possible which is also called source control covering number of measures. Rainwater harvesting as a part of the source control measures could contribute to the sustainability in stormwater management as well, by supporting potable water conservation and sustainability in water management in general. This part of the publication describes comprehensive stormwater management approaches as well as legislative framework. It contains brief overview of the source control techniques as well as examples of rain water use for non-potable purposes. Authors also described the risk analysis as valuable method for SWH system evaluation. We were able to collect helpful information from the questionnaires that helped us later in the risk identification as well as risk assessment phase along with the help of the brainstorming method within the team of experts. The results from the risk analysis led us to those parts of the system which need to be maintained with higher attention. Appropriate risk management will hopefully eliminate potential risks to the minimum and prevent potential material or health damages. The output from the risk assessment is a checklist available for users of such systems, enabling them to use the list of questions to perform regular self-control of the system, inform users about their system and serving also as a tool for prevention. The results from the risk analysis were verified by the AHP and empirical multilevel comprehensive evaluation, which was found to be useful as well. The information from questionnaires also gave us a plenty of ideas which way we need to direct our attention in the field of rainwater harvesting in our conditions in the future.
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This work was supported by the VEGA 1/0202/15 Sustainable and Safe Water Management in Buildings of the 3rd. Millennium and APVV-SK-CZ-2013-0188 Let’s Talk about the Water—An Essential Dimension of Sustainable Society of the 21st century. We would like to thank Ing. Zuzana Karelova, PhD. for her contribution to this work.
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Vranayová, Z., Kaposztasova, D., Zeleňáková, M., Markovic, G. (2015). Stormwater Management in Compliance with Sustainable Design of Buildings. In: Hlavínek, P., Zeleňáková, M. (eds) Storm Water Management. Springer Hydrogeology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25835-5_8
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