Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management: Recent submissions
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Development and Verification of an Online Artificial Intelligence System for Detection of Bursts and Other Abnormal Flows
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2010)Water lost through leakage from water distribution networks is often appreciable. As pressure increases on water resources, there is a growing emphasis for water service providers to minimize this loss. The objective of ... -
Multiple Flood Source Expected Annual Damage Computations
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2010)For flood damage reduction analysis, the standard for measuring risk is expected annual damage. This index represents a long-term average annual flood damage for a given structure or area. We compute this index by integrating ... -
Lake Effect in Wellhead Protection
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2010)A computational protocol for particle tracking in wellfields with lakes is proposed. The protocol is demonstrated in the Northwest Wellfield, which is the largest wellfield in Florida and contains many lakes. Comparison ... -
Comparison of Genetic Algorithm Parameter Setting Methods for Chlorine Injection Optimization
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2010)The suitability of genetic algorithms (GAs) for the optimization of water distribution systems (WDSs) has been demonstrated extensively. However, despite many years of application in many different fields, the selection ... -
Seasonal Residential Water Demand Forecasting for Census Tracts
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2010)The paucity of readily available demographic, economic, and water consumption data at household levels has limited the application of disaggregate water demand models. This research develops regression-based water demand ... -
Novel Multiobjective Shuffled Frog Leaping Algorithm with Application to Reservoir Flood Control Operation
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2010)Reservoir flood control operation (RFCO) is a large scale multiobjective problem with complex constraints that require powerful algorithms to solve it. As a new metaheuristic evolutionary algorithm, shuffled frog leaping ... -
Integrated Optimization of a Dual Quality Water and Wastewater System
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2010)When addressing urban water problems, it is no longer adequate to consider issues of water supply, demand, disposal, and reuse independently. Innovative water management strategies and opportunities for water reuse can ... -
Accounting for Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Multiobjective Genetic Algorithm Optimization of Water Distribution Systems
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2010)Considerable research has been carried out on the optimization of water distribution systems (WDSs) over the last three decades. In previous research, attention has mainly focused on the minimization of cost, due to the ... -
River GeoDSS for Agroenvironmental Enhancement of Colorado’s Lower Arkansas River Basin. II: Evaluation of Strategies
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2010)Research conducted at the field and regional scales in the Lower Arkansas River (LAR) Valley of Colorado has identified water management alternatives with potential for enhancing agroenvironmental conditions in the basin ... -
Economic Analysis of Large-Scale Upstream River Basin Development on the Blue Nile in Ethiopia Considering Transient Conditions, Climate Variability, and Climate Change
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2010)The upper Blue Nile Basin in Ethiopia harbors considerable untapped potential for irrigation and large-scale hydropower development and expansion. Numerous water resources system models have been developed to evaluate these ... -
Design Criteria of Urban Drainage Infrastructures under Climate Change
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2010)Actual projections provided by climate models suggest that the probability of occurrence of intense rainfall will increase in a future climate due to increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases. Considering that the ... -
Linking GIS, Hydraulic Modeling, and Tabu Search for Optimizing a Water Level-Monitoring Network in South Florida
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2010)The South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) has a large and expanding surface water level-monitoring network for various water bodies including lakes and streams. SFWMD seeks to optimize the existing network of ... -
River GeoDSS for Agroenvironmental Enhancement of Colorado’s Lower Arkansas River Basin. I: Model Development and Calibration
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2010)The Lower Arkansas River (LAR) Basin in Colorado, like many intensively irrigated river basins in the Western United States, faces a variety of problems associated with inefficient irrigation, seepage from earthen canals, ... -
Integrating Location Models with Bayesian Analysis to Inform Decision Making
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2010)In the present work, we locate sensors in water distribution networks and make inferences on the presence of contamination events based on sensor signals. We fully consider the imperfection of sensors, which means that ... -
Optimal Design of Sensor Placement in Water Distribution Networks
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2010)In this study we provide a methodology for the optimal design of water sensor placement in water distribution networks. The optimization algorithm used is based on a simulation-optimization and a single-objective function ... -
Simulating Residential Water Demand with a Stochastic End-Use Model
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2010)A water demand end-use model was developed to predict water demand patterns with a small time scale (1 s) and small spatial scale (residence level). The end-use model is based on statistical information of users and end-uses: ... -
Optimization of Water Distribution Network Design Using Differential Evolution
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2010)The paper describes the development of a DENET computer model that involves the application of an evolutionary optimization technique, differential evolution, linked to the hydraulic simulation solver, EPANET, for optimal ... -
Multiobjective Allocation of Transboundary Water Resources: Case of the Euphrates and Tigris
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2010)The allocation of water in a multicountry river system necessarily involves conflicting objectives, where increasing water benefits for one country entails losses for other countries. This paper presents the formulation ... -
Case Studies of Leak Detection and Location in Water Pipe Systems by Inverse Transient Analysis
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2010)The current paper aims at the assessment of the effectiveness of a popular transient-based technique—inverse transient analysis (ITA)—for leak detection in water pipe systems using physical data. Data were collected from ... -
Urban Storm-Water Quality Management: Centralized versus Source Control
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2010)The continuous growth of urban areas and the increasing public awareness of the environmental impacts of storm water have raised interest on the quality of the receiving water bodies. In the past two decades, many efforts ...