Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management: Recent submissions
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Balancing Effectiveness and Equity in Sustainable Water Management Transitions: Case of the Miami-Dade Water and Sewer Department
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)In response to diverse socioenvironmental challenges, urban water utilities in the United States are transitioning to more sustainable management practices that are often designed to reduce total water consumption. Although ... -
Water Pressure Prediction in a Water Supply Network Using the Informer Framework
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Water pressure scheduling is important for the normal operation of urban water supply networks, and water pressure prediction provides the basis and guidance for water pressure scheduling. Informer, as a deep learning model ... -
Using Water-Sensitive City Factors to Evaluate the Performance of Water Management Projects at a Global Scale
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)In recent decades, the effects of climate change, rapid urbanization, and the burdens of economic development have confronted cities with challenges in urban water management. This has resulted in mounting pressures on ... -
Uncertain Resource Allocation for Coastal Floods Based on the Resilience of Interdependent Water Infrastructures
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Floods are known as one of the most frequent natural events that impose many risks and consequences, especially for coastal communities. Utility companies such as wastewater and electricity have to improve the resilience ... -
Tracking Crack Development in Smart Water Networks Using IoT Acoustic Sensors
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Internet of Things (IoT) technologies with distributed wireless sensors have been increasingly adopted in water utilities to build smart water networks (SWNs) for monitoring purposes. Based on the daily data collected from ... -
Toward Identifying Cyber Dependencies in Water Distribution Systems Using Causal AI
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Water distribution systems are complex critical infrastructures that are vulnerable to cyberattacks, yet there is a lack of research on understanding the dependencies and interdependencies in these systems. Assessing ... -
Standardization versus Situatedness: A Gray Literature Metasynthesis of How Guidance for Alaska’s Water Infrastructure Management Varies by Government Level
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)The success of water system operation, maintenance, and management (OMM) critically depends on the local workforce. Extreme environmental conditions, limited financial resources, challenging supply chains, and increased ... -
Application of Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Linear Programming to Chlorine Injection in a Water Distribution System
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)In this paper, an interval type-2 fuzzy linear programming (IT2FLP) model was proposed to deal with uncertainty in booster optimization of a water distribution system (WDS). The IT2FLP model was applied to two cases to ... -
Robust and Reliable Design Alternatives to Water Distribution Networks: Introducing a Penalty-Free Hybrid Metaheuristic Multiobjective Algorithm with a Posterior Performance Investigation Model
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)The present study introduces a novel penalty-free hybrid metaheuristic, differential evolution–krill herd algorithm (DE-KHA) a multiobjective algorithm (MOA) for the reliability-based optimal design of water distribution ... -
Real-Time Localization of Hydraulic Transient Events in Water Distribution Systems Using Paired Transient Wave Arrival Time Strategy
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Timely pipe break and burst detection and localization are important for proactive management of water distribution systems (WDSs). This paper presents a novel timing-based method for fast localization of hydraulic transient ... -
Optimized Coordination of Urban Water Usage in China’s Minjiang River Basin under the Influence of Climate Change
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)This study investigated the current and potential future impact of climate change on water resources in the Minjiang River Basin, Fujian Province, China. Coupling a statistical downscaling model (SDSM) model and the Soil ... -
Free-Ride and Equilibriums in a Cooperative Game of Cascade Reservoirs
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)The cooperative operation of cascade reservoir systems is an efficient way to regulate water resources. However, noncooperation among various reservoir stakeholders is often observed in practice; this produces an interesting ... -
Dynamic DMA Design Methodology Based on Multilevel DMA and Multiobjective Optimization
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)As urbanization has accelerated, the coverage area of water distribution networks (WDNs) has been significantly increasing, making the management of large WDNs more difficult. To manage WDNs more accurately, water utilities ... -
Improving the Understanding of Secondary Impacts of Isolation Valve Closures on the Performance of Water Distribution Systems
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Isolation valve closures (IVCs) can effectively assist pipe maintenance and management in water distribution systems (WDSs), but they inevitably cause secondary impacts on the WDS’s performance. Previous studies have mainly ... -
Choosing the Best Algorithm for Optimum Locating and Adjustment of Pressure-Reducing Valves in Water Distribution Networks
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)The high pressure of water distribution networks (WDNs) increases leakage, bursts, and water consumption. Pressure-reducing valves (PRVs) are widely used in WDNs because of their flexibility and effectiveness in pressure ... -
A New Perspective on Assessing the Real Water Savings Resulting from Irrigation Technology Interventions
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Poor water resource management is a major cause of water loss and exacerbates water shortages. In order to avoid some misconceptions and misunderstandings associated with irrigation efficiency, the term real water savings ... -
Penalized Functional Decomposition for Detecting Bursts in Water Distribution Systems
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Detecting pipe bursts in water distribution systems (WDSs) is of critical importance for urban infrastructure maintenance. A pipe burst can be detected from measurements that are continuously collected from hydraulic meters ... -
Conceptual Water Main Failure Risk: Self-Excitation, Pipe Age, and Statistical Modeling Performance
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Statistical water main failure models that improve our understanding of main breaks may help water utilities allocate resources more efficiently. A variety of statistical models have been developed, but few actively seek ... -
Sensor Placement Optimization in Sewer Networks: Machine Learning–Based Source Identification Approach
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Wastewater surveillance has recently emerged as a valuable tool for environmental and public health monitoring. By analyzing the constituents and biomarkers present in wastewater, stakeholders can gather critical information ... -
Economically Optimal Leak Management: Balancing Pressure Reduction, Energy Recovery, and Leak Detection and Repair
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Maximizing the net economic benefits of leak management programs provides the most value to water utilities and their customers. Leak management programs with alternative objectives (e.g., to “break even” or to maximize ...