Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management: Recent submissions
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Effect of the Seasonal Rainfall Distribution on Storm-Water Quality Capture Volume Estimation
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013)The water quality capture volume (WQCV) is a design parameter that is used for sizing urban storm-water treatment facilities. The storage, treatment, overflow, and runoff model (STORM) in NetSTORM was used to translate ... -
Improved Dynamic Programming for Reservoir Operation Optimization with a Concave Objective Function
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2012)Diminishing marginal utility is an important characteristic of water resources systems. With the assumption of diminishing marginal utility (i.e., concavity) of reservoir utility functions, this paper derives a monotonic ... -
Decentralized Optimization Method for Water Allocation Management in the Yellow River Basin
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2012)The management of large river basins, such as the Yellow River Basin (YRB) in China, is complicated by distributed, localized decision processes and by mechanisms that coordinate local decisions and manage basin-level ... -
Impact of Water Demand Parameters on the Reliability of Municipal Storage Tanks
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2012)Municipal storage tanks are normally sized according to inherently conservative design guidelines. An alternative way to determine the required size of a tank, on the basis of a stochastic analysis of the system, was ... -
Nutrient Loads to Cayuga Lake, New York: Watershed Modeling on a Budget
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2012)Nutrient loads were estimated for the 34 watersheds draining into Cayuga Lake, New York, through use of a watershed model. Financial and human resources were very limited for the project, but significant cost savings were ... -
Natural Resource Sustainability versus Livelihood Resilience: Model of Groundwater Exploitation Strategies in Developing Regions
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2012)This paper designs a stylized model representing farming in water-scarce regions of South India to address the problem of managing depleting groundwater assets facing the threat of irreversible loss. Circumstances under ... -
Demand Components in Water Distribution Network Analysis
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2012)Solving water distribution network hydraulics depends to a great extent on demand representation in the related simulation models. The classical approach of simulation models for water distribution networks (WDNs) is ... -
Two Faces of Uncertainty: Climate Science and Water Utility Planning Methods
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GIS-Based Decision Support System for Dam Break Flood Management under Uncertainty with Two-Dimensional Numerical Simulations
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2012)A geographical information system (GIS)-based decision support system has been developed for dam-break flood management based on realistic two-dimensional flood simulations. With the ability of interacting with and using ... -
Effective Approach for Solving Battle of Water Calibration Network Problem
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2012)This paper presents an effective approach for calibrating an extended period simulation (EPS) model of water distribution system. By using the benchmark model calibration problem, set up for Battle of Water Calibration ... -
Incorporation of Variable-Speed Pumping in Multiobjective Genetic Algorithm Optimization of the Design of Water Transmission Systems
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2012)Global warming caused by human activities presents serious global risks. Individuals, governments, and industries need to be more energy efficient and contribute to the mitigation of global warming by reducing their ... -
Water Management Adaptations to Prevent Loss of Spring-Run Chinook Salmon in California under Climate Change
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2012)Spring-run Chinook salmon ( -
Road to 2050: Visions for a More Sustainable Future
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Provoking More Productive Discussion of Wicked Problems
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Battle of the Water Calibration Networks
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2012)Calibration is a process of comparing model results with field data and making the appropriate adjustments so that both results agree. Calibration methods can involve formal optimization methods or manual methods in which ... -
Influence of Deregulated Electricity Markets on Hydropower Generation and Downstream Flow Regime
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2012)The flow regime of rivers is a complex but important measure of environmental quality and one that can be significantly impacted by conventional hydropower generation. While traditional hydropower scheduling creates a ... -
Simplified Procedure for Water Distribution Networks Reliability Assessment
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2012)This work describes a simple procedure for the analysis of water distribution system (WDS) performance. It is based on the reliability assessment of a WDS during failure states resulting from the unavailability of a pipe ... -
Calibration of Proportional Controllers for the RTC of Pressures to Reduce Leakage in Water Distribution Networks
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2012)Pressure control is a key issue for the reduction of water loss through leakage in municipal water distribution networks (WDNs). The paper presents a general method to calibrate the proportional controllers for the real ... -
Regional Estimation of Storm Water Management Parameters in Florida
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2012)Storm water management parameters that are significantly influenced by local climatic conditions are the runoff coefficient ( -
Water-Distribution Systems Simplifications through Clustering
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2012)For large water-distribution systems fully detailed models result in a substantial amount of data, making it difficult to manage, monitor, and understand how the main structure of the system works. A possible way to cope ...