Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management: Recent submissions
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Developing Future Engineers: Case Study on the Incorporation of Sustainable Design in an Undergraduate Civil Engineering Curriculum
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)To better prepare students to tackle the challenges of real-world problems, the authors developed a strategic approach to incorporate sustainable-design principles in the undergraduate curriculum to set a foundation of ... -
Impacts of Land-Use Change on Groundwater Supply: Ecosystem Services Assessment in Kona, Hawaii
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)Payments for watershed management link upstream inhabitants whose actions affect water resources with downstream water users. This paper evaluates the effect of plausible shifts in watershed land use on hydrologic services ... -
Curses, Tradeoffs, and Scalable Management: Advancing Evolutionary Multiobjective Direct Policy Search to Improve Water Reservoir Operations
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)Optimal management policies for water reservoir operation are generally designed via stochastic dynamic programming (SDP). Yet, the adoption of SDP in complex real-world problems is challenged by the three curses of ... -
Cost Gradient–Based Assessment and Design Improvement Technique for Water Distribution Networks with Varying Loads
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)A gradient-based network assessment is proposed as a way to understand and improve the cost and hydraulic performance of distribution networks. It seeks to reduce the computation time of optimizing water distribution ... -
Network Analysis and Visualizations of Water Resources Infrastructure in California: Linking Connectivity and Resilience
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)Connectivity is important to the structure and function of systems. In water infrastructure systems, connections between components determine flow patterns and operational flexibility. Network theory can provide tools to ... -
Evaluating and Forecasting the Drivers of Water Use in a City: Model Development and a Case from Beijing
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)Comprehensive studies examining the driving forces of water use and evaluating their historical and future effects are paramount for cities concerned about water shortages. Conventional studies using input-output-structural ... -
The Challenge of Air Valves: A Selective Critical Literature Review
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)One key alternative for removing, preventing, and effectively coping with the often vexing presence of air in water pipelines is the combination air-vacuum valve. Despite their often effective role, such valves can be ... -
A Robust, Rapidly Convergent Method That Solves the Water Distribution Equations for Pressure-Dependent Models
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)In the past, pressure-dependent models (PDMs) have suffered from convergence difficulties. In this paper conditions are established for the existence and uniqueness of solutions to the PDM problem posed as two optimization ... -
Effective-Power-Ranking Algorithm for Energy and Greenhouse Gas Reduction in Water Distribution Systems through Pipe Enhancement
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)Many global municipal water distribution systems (WDS) are in need of repair. To save energy and greenhouse gas emissions due to pumping, pipes that need to be replaced can be enhanced by being enlarged and made of a ... -
Inclusion of Mobile Sensors in Water Distribution System Monitoring Operations
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)This study describes a binary integer programming model for mutually-operating fixed and mobile sensors in water distribution systems. The proposed method applies a deterministic optimization scheme for maximizing the ... -
Sustainability of Public Policy: Example from the Energy–Water Nexus
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)Assessing how well public policies support and advance sustainable planning and practice is an area of increasing interest, particularly with respect to resources management. The relationship between energy and water ... -
Real-World Considerations in Water Distribution System Design
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Closure to “<i>Risk Information for Floodplain Management</i>” by L. Douglas James and Brad Hall (October 1986, Vol. 112, No. 4)
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1988) -
Risk Analysis for Real-Time Flood Control Operation of a Reservoir
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)There are many uncertainties in real-time flood control operation of a reservoir, which create risks in flood control decision making. In this paper, three uncertainty factors—reservoir inflow-forecasting errors, outflow ... -
Optimization of Water Distribution Networks for Combined Hydropower Energy Recovery and Leakage Reduction
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)Water supply is energy intensive, resulting in large amounts of greenhouse gas emissions and increased electricity bills for water service providers (WSPs). In recent years, the incorporation of microhydropower (MHP) ... -
Comparison of Stochastic Optimization Algorithms for Hydropower Reservoir Operation with Ensemble Streamflow Prediction
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)Stochastic optimization methods have been developed over the last few decades to help water managers who are regularly confronted with making complex decisions about reservoir releases in the context of streamflow ... -
Integer Programming Application for Planning of Hydropower Production
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1991)This paper describes a mixed integer programming model developed for the water management of Southern California Edison's Big Creek hydroelectric facility. It is an application paper—a review of past and present practice ... -
Adjoint-Based Probabilistic Source Characterization in Water-Distribution Systems with Transient Flows and Imperfect Sensors
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)If a contamination event occurs in a water distribution system, sensors in the network may observe water quality changes. The data from these sensors can be used to identify the source of the contamination. The sensors can ... -
Closure to “Alternate Decision Making in Water Distribution Network with NSGA-II” by Md. Atiquzzaman, Shie-Yui Liong, and Xinying Yu
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2007) -
Review of <i>Water boundaries: Demystifying land boundaries adjacent to tidal or navigable waters</i> by Bruce S. Flushman
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2002)