SIMOP Urban Water Model

SIMOP Urban Water Model
Author: Terry A. Powers
Publisher:
Total Pages: 96
Release: 1980
Genre: Municipal water supply
ISBN:

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Advances in Modeling and Management of Urban Water Networks

Advances in Modeling and Management of Urban Water Networks
Author: Alberto Campisano
Publisher: MDPI
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2021-01-06
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3039437895

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The Special Issue on Advances in Modeling and Management of Urban Water Networks (UWNs) explores four important topics of research in the context of UWNs: asset management, modeling of demand and hydraulics, energy recovery, and pipe burst identification and leakage reduction. In the first topic, the multi-objective optimization of interventions on the network is presented to find trade-off solutions between costs and efficiency. In the second topic, methodologies are presented to simulate and predict demand and to simulate network behavior in emergency scenarios. In the third topic, a methodology is presented for the multi-objective optimization of pump-as-turbine (PAT) installation sites in transmission mains. In the fourth topic, methodologies for pipe burst identification and leakage reduction are presented. As for the urban drainage systems (UDSs), the two explored topics are asset management, with a system upgrade to reduce flooding, and modeling of flow and water quality, with analyses on the transition from surface to pressurized flow, impact of water use reduction on the operation of UDSs, and sediment transport in pressurized pipes. The Special Issue also includes one paper dealing with the hydraulic modeling of an urban river with a complex cross-section.

Urban Water Infrastructure

Urban Water Infrastructure
Author: Neil S. Grigg
Publisher:
Total Pages: 352
Release: 1992
Genre: Nature
ISBN:

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The Challenge of Improving Water and Sanitation Services in Less Developed Countries

The Challenge of Improving Water and Sanitation Services in Less Developed Countries
Author: Dale Whittington
Publisher: Now Publishers Inc
Total Pages: 154
Release: 2009
Genre: Infrastructure (Economics)
ISBN: 1601982488

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This paper argues that there are many challenges to designing and implementing water and sanitation interventions that actually deliver economic benefits to the households in developing countries. Perhaps most critical to successful water and sanitation investments is to discover and implement forms of service and payment mechanisms that will render the improvements worthwhile for those who must pay for them. In this paper, we argue that, in many cases, the conventional network technologies of water supply and sanitation will fail this test, and that poor households need alternative, non-network technologies. However, it will not necessarily be the case that specific non-network improved water supply and/or sanitation technologies will always be seen as worthwhile by those who must pay for them. We argue that there is no easy panacea to resolve this situation. For any intervention, the outcome is likely to be context-dependent. An intervention that works well in one locality may fail miserably in another. For any given technology, the outcome will depend on economic and social conditions, including how it is implemented, by whom, and often on the extent to which complementary behavioral, institutional and organizational changes also occur. For this reason, we warn against excessive generalization: one cannot, in our view, say that one intervention yields a rate of return of x% while another yields a return of y%, because the economic returns are likely to vary with local circumstances. More important is to identify the circumstances under which an intervention is more or less likely to succeed. Also for this reason, when we analyze a few selected water and sanitation interventions, we employ a probabilistic rather than a deterministic analysis to emphasize that real world outcomes are likely to vary substantially.

Urban Water Cycle Modelling and Management

Urban Water Cycle Modelling and Management
Author: Meenakshi Arora
Publisher: MDPI
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2018-09-04
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3038971073

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This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Urban Water Cycle Modelling and Management" that was published in Water

Urban Water Resources Toolbox

Urban Water Resources Toolbox
Author: Leif Wolf
Publisher: IWA Publishing
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2007-01-19
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1843391384

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Holistic but applicable approaches are urgently needed to help plan long-term, cost-effective and sustainable urban water management systems. Groundwater is a central element in the urban water cycle of all cities located on aquifers, yet it remains inadequately integrated into urban water management practices. This book describes holistic approaches for quantification and balancing of urban water and solute fluxes that have been developed by the joint Euro-Australian research project AISUWRS. The new tools comprise a chain of interconnected models that link urban water supply, urban drainage and urban groundwater resources. These include a new sewer exfiltration, model that is based on pipe asset conditions which permits flows to the environment to be estimated. The book provides details on the further processing of this information through the unsaturated zone down to aquifer, where numerical groundwater flow and transport models are applied. Concise documentation is provided on each of the models. The practicability of applying the chain of models was tested by applying it in four case study cities in Australia, Germany, Slovenia and the United Kingdom that have diverse conditions in terms of hydrogeologic setup, climate and data availability. This permitted additional validation by field investigations, including problem-oriented monitoring campaigns aimed at assessing the impact of wastewater practice on groundwater. The book provides guidance and examples of the application of multilevel piezometers, on adapted monitoring strategies, and the use for interpretation purposes of microbiological parameters, pharmaceutical residues and related marker species. The socio-economic analysis in the case study cities sometimes uncovered distinctively different problem perceptions and priorities, both in the groups of experts responsible for the water management and with the remaining stakeholders. The AISUWRS project has developed tools to foster these urgently required deliberation processes. Methodologies for formal sustainability assessment with a triple bottom line background were also elaborated and tested during the case studies. The case studies have shown that the approach is valid and constitutes an important step towards integrated urban water management.

Evaluation of Water Supply Projects

Evaluation of Water Supply Projects
Author: Maria Arlene M. Tadle
Publisher:
Total Pages: 62
Release: 1990
Genre: Water resources development
ISBN:

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Household Water Demand Estimation

Household Water Demand Estimation
Author: Miguel Bachrach
Publisher:
Total Pages: 46
Release: 1994
Genre: Water consumption
ISBN:

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