Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management: Recent submissions
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Simulation to Aid Disaster Planning and Mitigation: Tools and Techniques for Water Distribution Managers and Emergency Planners
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013)Communities depend on increasingly complex critical infrastructures to meet residents’ daily needs and to facilitate emergency response. The potential for cascading failures could intensify the consequences of disasters ... -
Bayesian Optimization Framework for Cost-Effective Control and Research of Non-Point-Source Sediment
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013)Rural nonpoint sources of water pollution are particularly difficult to control, with relatively little progress having been made compared to point sources. Management choices are difficult because of large uncertainties ... -
Systems Analysis Approach to the Design of Efficient Water Pricing Policies under the EU Water Framework Directive
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013)Economic theory suggests that water pricing can contribute to efficient management of water scarcity. The European Union (EU) Water Framework Directive (WFD) is a major legislative effort to introduce the use of economic ... -
Assessment of Flow Changes from Hydropower Development and Operations in Sekong, Sesan, and Srepok Rivers of the Mekong Basin
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013)The Mekong River supports unique biodiversity and provides food security for over 60 million people in the Indo-Burma region, yet potential changes to natural flow patterns from hydropower development are a major risk to ... -
Dynamic Planning of Water Resource and Electric Power Systems under Uncertainty
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013)Hydropower plays an important role in electric power systems. It not only interacts with many non-hydropower generation activities but also competes with other water users (industrial, commercial, residential, and agricultural) ... -
Vulnerability, Risk, and Mitigation Assessment of Water Distribution Systems for Insufficient Fire Flows
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013)Water distributions systems must reliably supply water for fire-fighting needs as well as -
Watershed Systems Analysis for Urban Storm-Water Management to Achieve Water Quality Goals
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013)Systems analysis can assist in decision making to achieve water quality goals in urban watersheds that are typically associated with streams having poor water quality and degraded aquatic habitats caused by storm-water ... -
Impacts of Elevation Data Spatial Resolution on Two-Dimensional Dam Break Flood Simulation and Consequence Assessment
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2014)In the United States, there are approximately 84,000 dams including approximately 14,000 dams that are classified as high hazard. Approximately 50% of high hazard dams do not have an emergency action plan (EAP), a document ... -
Iterative Linearization Scheme for Convex Nonlinear Equations: Application to Optimal Operation of Water Distribution Systems
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013)Convex equations exist in different fields of research. As an example are the Hazen-Williams or Darcy-Weisbach head-loss formulas and chlorine decay in water supply systems. Pure linear programming (LP) cannot be directly ... -
Investigation of Uncertainties in Surface Water Resource Assessment of Georgia’s State Water Plan
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2014)As one of the three key components of state of Georgia’s state water plan, a surface water availability resource assessment (SWRA) involves three sequential steps, as follows: (1) synthesizing unimpaired flow (UIF) data ... -
Discussion of “Simulating Nonresidential Water Demand with a Stochastic End-Use Model” by E. J. M. Blokker, E. J. Pieterse-Quirijns, J. H. G. Vreeburg, and J. C. van Dijk
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Explicit Water Quality Model Generation and Rapid Multiscenario Simulation
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2014)Emerging applications in water distribution systems place new challenges on water quality modeling tools, including the need for an explicit mathematical representation and simulation of large ensembles of contamination ... -
Special Section on Climate Change and Water Resources: Climate Nonstationarity and Water Resources Management
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Heuristic Postoptimization Approaches for Design of Water Distribution Systems
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013)This work presents a postoptimization methodology for refining the solutions found by adaptive search algorithms used in the design of large water distribution networks. The approach uses two heuristics to search for an ... -
Design of Outlet Control Structures for Ecological Detention Ponds
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2014)Through a simulation modeling approach, this paper seeks to modify the design of detention ponds to preserve the natural ecological flows while satisfying the requisite regulatory flow requirements. This paper will utilize ... -
Novel Approach to Detecting Pipe Bursts in Water Distribution Networks
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2014)This paper presents a data-driven simulation-based burst detection approach in water distribution systems using control limit analysis. System specific burst sensitivity tables are developed by synthetically generating ... -
Groundwater Resource Planning to Preserve Streamflow: Where Environmental Amenity Meets Economic Welfare Loss
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013)Streams and their associated biological communities are among our most valuable natural resources. Humans rely on the environmental services provided by streams in a myriad of ways. However, in some areas, excessive ... -
Recovering the Release History of a Pollutant Intrusion into a Water Supply System through a Geostatistical Approach
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013)This work addresses the issue of recovering the release history of a pollutant injection in water distribution systems through the application of geostatistical tools. Geostatistical tools are applied to the inverse problem ... -
Agroeconomic Analysis of Nitrate Crop Source Reductions
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013)This paper presents an agroeconomic approach to assess the economic impact of improving nitrogen and irrigation management practices in California’s Tulare Lake Basin and the Salinas Valley. The approach employs a ... -
Nonmatrix Gradient Method for the Simulation of Water Distribution Networks
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013)A new method is presented for the steady-state analysis of water supply networks. This method is based on the same fundamental concepts as the gradient method, with the difference that for each element in the network, two ...