Abstract: The need for sewers to carry sediment has been recognized for many years. Traditionally, a minimum “self-cleansing” velocity was specified and, although this approach had been successful in many cases, it was appreciated ...

Abstract: Storage tanks are commonly installed in a combined sewer system to control the discharge of combined sewer overflows that have been identified as a leading source for receiving water pollution. The traditional approach to ...

Abstract: The implementation of local water recycling and reuse practices is considered as a possible approach to managing issues of water scarcity. The sustainable design and implementation of a water recycle/reuse scheme has to ...

Abstract: This paper proposes a methodology to decompose water distribution systems (WDSs) into a twin-hierarchy pipeline structure consisting of backbone mains and community feeders. The method has three steps: (1) clustering ...

Abstract: Optimal rehabilitation of large water distribution systems (WDSs) with many decision variables is often time consuming and computationally expensive. This paper presents a new optimal rehabilitation methodology for WDSs ...

Abstract: When designing a water distribution system (WDS), it is imperative that the reliability of the network is taken into consideration. It is possible to directly evaluate the reliability of a WDS, although the calculation ...