Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management: Recent submissions
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Optimal Design of Water Distribution Systems Using Many-Objective Visual Analytics
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013)This paper reports the use of many-objective optimization for water distribution system (WDS) design or rehabilitation problems. The term many-objective optimization refers to optimization with four or more objectives. The ... -
Multiobjective Water Distribution Systems Control of Pumping Cost, Water Quality, and Storage-Reliability Constraints
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2014)This work describes a multiobjective model for trading-off pumping cost and water quality for water distribution systems operation. Constraints are imposed on flows and pressures, on periodical tanks operation, and on tanks ... -
Implicit Mean-Variance Approach for Optimal Management of a Water Supply System under Uncertainty
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013)This study addresses the management of a water supply system under uncertainty. Water is taken from sources that include aquifers and desalination plants and conveyed through a distribution system to consumers under ... -
Climate Change, Urban Development, and Storm Water: Perspectives from the Field
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2014)Climate projections in many U.S. metropolitan areas show increases in daily temperature, and potential shifts in rainfall patterns toward stronger, more intense storms. At the same time, metropolitan regions continuing to ... -
Optimizing Watershed Management by Coordinated Operation of Storing Facilities
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013)Water storing facilities in a watershed are very often operated independently one to another to meet specific operating objectives, with no information sharing among the operators. This uncoordinated approach might result ... -
Pressure-Discharge Relations with Application to Head-Driven Simulation of Water Distribution Networks
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013)The pressure-discharge relation used in continuity equations is one of the most important components of hydraulic models based on head-driven simulation method, as it has a great impact on the accuracy of the results of ... -
Regulatory, Analysis, and Decision Support Challenges to Reduce Environmental Impact in the Design and Operation of Water Distribution Networks
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013)This paper reviews policy and research initiatives that have begun to address three major challenges to incorporate regional environmental impacts in the design and optimization of drinking water distribution systems. These ... -
Complex Adaptive Systems Framework to Assess Supply-Side and Demand-Side Management for Urban Water Resources
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2014)The availability of water resources in many urbanizing areas is the emergent property of the adaptive interactions among consumers, policy, and the hydrologic cycle. As water availability becomes more stressed, public ... -
Integrated Land and Water Resources Management Framework for Hirakud Canal Subcommand (India) Using Gray Systems Analysis
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013)An integrated land and water management model incorporating inexact framework is developed for sectorwise and seasonwise planning in the canal subcommand area. The gray systems theory is utilized for defining system ... -
Complex Adaptive Systems Approach to Simulate the Sustainability of Water Resources and Urbanization
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013)Urban water resources should be managed to meet conflicting demands for environmental health, economic prosperity, and social equity for present and future generations. While the sustainability of water resources can depend ... -
Flood-Damage-Reduction Project Evaluation with Explicit Consideration of Damage Cost Uncertainty
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013)Facing uncertain future conditions, flood-damage-reduction alternatives with large positive expected net benefits may be accompanied with high uncertainty. In decision-making under uncertainty, not only failure probability ... -
A Systems Approach to Holistic Total Maximum Daily Load Policy: Case of Lake Allegan, Michigan
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013)Systems thinking and system dynamics simulation can provide insights for developing effective plans to protect the environmental integrity of natural systems impacted by human activities. In this study, a system archetype ... -
Loop-by-Loop Cutting Algorithm to Generate Layouts for Urban Drainage Systems
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013)The design of urban drainage systems consists of solving two subproblems: (1) generating the layout and (2) sizing the sewers. The latter includes pipe diameters, installation depths, and pumping facilities, all of which ... -
Optimal Reliability-Based Design of Bulk Water Supply Systems
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2014)The hydraulic reliability of bulk water-supply systems can be defined in terms of the failure frequency of the municipal storage tanks they supply: the system fails when the tank runs dry and is functional otherwise. ... -
Frequency Response Diagram for Pipeline Leak Detection: Comparing the Odd and Even Harmonics
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2014)Pipeline leak detection using hydraulic transient analysis is a relatively new detection technique. For single pipeline systems, recent work has led to two different approaches for determining leak parameters based on ... -
Some Curious Things about Water Management
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End-to-End Cyberinfrastructure for Decision-Making Support in Watershed Management
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013)Over the past decade, water-centric research has increasingly taken into consideration the interactions between the water cycle and the social, economic, and biogeophysical processes that drive watershed dynamics. In ... -
Development and Field Validation of a Burst Localization Methodology
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013)Reducing water loss through bursts is a major challenge throughout the developed and developing world. Currently burst lifetimes are often long because awareness and location of them is time- and labor-intensive. Advances ... -
Evaluating the Impact of Alternative Hydro-Climate Scenarios on Transfer Agreements: Practical Improvement for Generating Synthetic Streamflows
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013)Utilities are increasingly considering the use of temporary water transfers to augment their supplies during periods of drought, an alternative that is often less expensive than expanding safe yields through new infrastructure. ... -
Bayesian Networks for Source Intrusion Detection
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013)Bayesian belief networks are graphical probabilistic analysis tools for representing and analyzing problems involving uncertainty. The problem of monitoring the propagation of a contaminant in a water distribution system ...