Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management: Recent submissions
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Water Quantity and Quality Joint-Operation Modeling of Dams and Floodgates in Huai River Basin, China
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)Water quantity and quality joint operation of dams and floodgates is a cost-effective way to improve a river basin’s water environment at present. It has become a hot topic in integrated basin management. The Huai River ... -
Strategic Planning for Drought Mitigation under Climate Change
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)Droughts continue to be a major natural hazard, and mounting evidence of global warming confronts society with a pressing question: Will climate change aggravate the risk of drought at the local scale? Are current ... -
Adaptive Reservoir Operation Model Incorporating Nonstationary Inflow Prediction
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)Long-term changes in reservoir inflow due to climate change and human interferences have caused doubts on the assumption of hydrologic stationarity in reservoir design and operation. Incorporating uncertain predictions ... -
Impact of Water-Quality Conditions in Source Reservoirs on the Optimal Operation of a Regional Multiquality Water-Distribution System
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)The impact of water quality conditions in source reservoirs on the optimal operation of a regional multiquality water-distribution system is analyzed. The optimization model concurrently minimizes three operational objectives ... -
Dynamic Forecast of Daily Urban Water Consumption Using a Variable-Structure Support Vector Regression Model
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)A reliable forecasting model for daily water consumption would provide the data basis for scheduling urban water supply facilities. In this paper, a variable-structure support vector regression (VS-SVR) model is developed ... -
Real-Time Multiobjective Optimization of Operation of Water Supply Systems
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)The need for more efficient use of energy in water distribution systems is increasing constantly due to increasing energy prices. A new methodology for optimized real-time operation of a water distribution system is developed ... -
Water Distribution System Rehabilitation under Climate Change Mitigation Scenarios in Canada
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)Many countries are considering policy instruments such as a carbon tax and economic discounting to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in key sectors like the water sector. This paper examines the impact of economic ... -
Multi-Objective Operations of Multi-Wetland Ecosystem: iModel Applied to the Everglades Restoration
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)The Everglades is a complex, multiwetland ecosystem that is heavily managed to meet often-competing flood control, water supply, and environmental demands. Using objective measures to balance these demands through operational ... -
Stochastic Multiobjective Optimization Model for Urban Drainage Network Rehabilitation
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)Flooding in urban areas has become increasingly common in recent decades, as a result of increased urbanization, decreased infiltration rates, and climate change. Hydraulic rehabilitation plans can be developed and implemented ... -
Stormwater Control Measures: Optimization Methods for Sizing and Selection
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)Stormwater management in urban areas remains a challenging water-resources and environmental problem worldwide. This work develops and tests two methods for optimizing stormwater control measures. The first method relies ... -
Optimization of Multipurpose Reservoir Systems Using Power Market Models
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)Hydroeconomic models have been used to determine policies for efficient allocation of scarce water resources. Hydropower benefits are typically represented through exogenous electricity prices, but these do not consider ... -
Sensitivity Analysis of Energy Use in Pipe-Replacement Planning for a Large Water-Distribution Network
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)Most utilities are actively engaged in pipe replacement planning for a variety of reasons: to reduce the volume of lost water in their network by repairing or avoiding main breaks, to alleviate water quality concerns, to ... -
Managing Municipal Water Supply and Use in Water-Starved Regions: Looking Ahead
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Uncertainty Segregation and Comparative Evaluation in Groundwater Remediation Designs: A Chance-Constrained Hierarchical Bayesian Model Averaging Approach
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)Groundwater remediation designs rely on simulation models that are subjected to various sources of uncertainty. This study introduces a hierarchical Bayesian model averaging (HBMA) method to segregate sources of uncertainty ... -
Taking Account of Uncertainty in Demand Growth When Phasing the Construction of a Water Distribution Network
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)As is well known, water systems grow gradually over long periods of time, and the life of piping tends to be much longer than the planning horizon used for pipe sizing. Furthermore, the uncertainty about future demands ... -
Development of a Minimalistic Data Collection Strategy for QUAL2Kw
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)In-stream water-quality models provide guidance in watershed management decisions by linking pollutant loads to changes in water quality. These models are particularly useful for determining wasteload allocations, developing ... -
Research and Application of Multidimensional Dynamic Programming in Cascade Reservoirs Based on Multilayer Nested Structure
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)The multidimensional dynamic programming (MDP) algorithm is a traditional method used to solve cascade reservoir operation optimization (CROO) problems, but the high dimensionality called the -
Consequential Research
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Combined Impact of Inland and Coastal Floods: Mapping Knowledge Base for Development of Planning Strategies
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)Concurrent incidence of heavy rainfall events and coastal storm surges can cause damages of exponential proportion to the coastal habitants and infrastructures. Super Storm Sandy and hurricane Irene were wake up calls that ...