Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management: Recent submissions
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Water Supply Analysis for Restoring the Colorado River Delta, Mexico
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2007)This paper employs an economic-engineering optimization model to explore water supply options for environmental restoration of the Colorado River Delta, Mexico. Potential water sources include reductions in local agricultural ... -
Administration and Institutional Provisions of Water Sharing Agreements
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2007)The effectiveness of any law, regulation, contract, or legally enforceable agreement, regardless of the subject matter, depends on how effectively it is administered and how rigorously its provisions are enforced. Water ... -
Managing Drought Impacts: Case Study of Mali, Africa
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2007)Developed countries such as the United States have proposed planning frameworks for managing the impacts of drought. This paper describes a process that is a modification to these frameworks for application to developing ... -
Forecasting Residential Water Demand: Case Study
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2007)A new daily time series model for East Doncaster, Melbourne, Australia, is being evaluated. The model depends on the postulate that total water use is made up of base use and seasonal use, where base use is characterized ... -
Calibrating Pipe Wall Demand Coefficient for Chlorine Decay in Water Distribution System
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2007)Methodology and algorithm to calibrate pipe wall demand coefficients for chlorine decay using an input-output model framework are developed and applied. An input-output model of water quality in water distribution systems ... -
Locating Satellite Booster Disinfectant Stations
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2007)Booster disinfectant is introduced within a distribution system to maintain disinfectant residuals and avoid high dosages near water sources. Assuming that first order reaction kinetics apply to chlorine decay, an integer ... -
Drought Management Planning with Economic and Risk Factors
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2007)Traditional drought management planning has focused on curtailing demand through various conservation measures when regional hydroclimatic indicators reach specific trigger levels. This study suggests a methodology that ... -
Water and Conflict: Historical Perspective
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2007)Perhaps the most famous American quote regarding water and conflict is attributed to the writer Mark Twain who stated “Whiskey is for drinking, water is for fighting.” What underlies this quote, though, is the reality that ... -
Evaluating Water Transfers from Agriculture for Reducing Critical Habitat Water Shortages in the Platte Basin
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2007)Discrete sequential stochastic programming (DSSP) is coupled with the MODSIM basin-wide hydrologic model to estimate the foregone agricultural value associated with water transfers aimed at reducing water shortages for ... -
Multiobjective Design of Dynamic Monitoring Networks for Detection of Groundwater Pollution
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2007)A methodology is developed based on the solution of optimization models for optimal design of groundwater quality monitoring networks. The optimal monitoring network is time varying as the monitoring wells are installed ... -
Water Management Applications of Climate-Based Hydrologic Forecasts: Case Study of the Truckee-Carson River Basin
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2007)Water managers in the western United States and throughout the world are facing the increasing challenge of supplying a variety of water demands under the growing stresses of climate variability and of population and ... -
Using Neural Networks to Model the Impacts of Climate Change on Water Supplies
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2007)An artificial neural network methodology is developed to investigate the possible effects on monthly and seasonal surface water supplies in Colorado’s Arkansas River Basin under two transient climate change scenarios, the ... -
Stochastic Design of Water Distribution Systems with Expected Annual Damages
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2007)This paper presents a stochastic design approach that quantifies the expected annual damages sustained by residential, commercial, and industrial users during low- and high-pressure hydraulic failures in a water network. ... -
Cost and Pollutant Removal of Storm-Water Treatment Practices
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2007)Six storm-water best management practices (BMPs) for treating urban rainwater runoff were evaluated for cost and effectiveness in removing suspended sediments and total phosphorus. Construction and annual operating and ... -
Efficient Groundwater Remediation System Design Subject to Uncertainty Using Robust Optimization
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2007)Many groundwater remediation designs for contaminant plume containment are developed using mathematically based groundwater flow models. These mathematical models are most effective as predictive tools when the parameters ... -
Optimization and Assessment of Agricultural Water-Sharing Scenarios under Multiple Socioeconomic Objectives
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2007)The allocation of irrigation water to multiple, spatially distinct sites is one of the oldest and most important problems in water resources planning and management. However, past technical investigations have focused ... -
Strategic Decision Support for Resolving Conflict over Water Sharing among Countries along the Syr Darya River in the Aral Sea Basin
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2007)The graph model for conflict resolution (GMCR), along with its associated decision support system GMCR II, are employed for systematically studying the strategic aspects of conflict existing among countries in the Aral Sea ... -
Consideration of Climate Variability and Change in Agricultural Water Resources Planning
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2007)Although agriculture and its use of water resources are obviously sensitive to climatic conditions, past research has seldom identified the effects of climate variability and climate change on the fully developed relationship ... -
Implementation of Pressure and Leakage Management Strategies on the Gold Coast, Australia: Case Study
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2007)Many water authorities, both nationally and internationally, have been forced to rethink their strategies for achieving water balance as a result of growing water demands, droughts, reduced no-failure yields, and environmental ... -
Evaluation of Risk-Related Performance in Water Management for the Ganges Delta of Bangladesh
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2007)A risk-based evaluation is performed in the meeting of future water demands in the Ganges Delta of Bangladesh (GDB). This evaluation is based on reliability, resiliency, and vulnerability performance indicators, which have ...