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Structural Design of the Rainwater Harvesting System

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As introduced in Chap. 1, the RWH system should be regarded as an integrated system, composed of three indispensable parts, namely, the rainwater collection, storage, and water supply subsystems.

The original version of this chapter was revised: The artwork of the figure 3.39 was corrected. The erratum to this chapter is available at 10.1007/978-981-287-964-6_12

An erratum to this chapter can be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-964-6_12

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Zhu, Q. (2015). Structural Design of the Rainwater Harvesting System. In: Zhu, Q., Gould, J., Li, Y., Ma, C. (eds) Rainwater Harvesting for Agriculture and Water Supply. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-964-6_3

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