Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management: Recent submissions
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Analyzing Water Customer Preferences for Online Feedback Technologies in Israel: A Prototype Study
(ASCE, 4/1/2020 1)Over the last decade, utilities, governments, and businesses have increasingly come to realize that financial considerations are not the only factors driving consumer behavior; rather, social and psychological factors play ... -
Correcting Power Leakage Equation for Improved Leakage Modeling and Detection
(ASCE, 3/1/2020 1)Fluid pressure influences leakage flow rate in water distribution pipe networks. Significant progress has been made in the use of pressure management techniques to control leakage. An empirical power equation (known as the ... -
Assessing the Impacts of Urban Water-Use Restrictions at the District Level: Case Study of California’s Drought Mandate
(ASCE, 5/1/2020 1)This paper estimates feasible water savings for a sample of nine urban water districts in California during the height of the 2012–2016 drought, just prior to the implementation of mandatory water-use reductions, using ... -
Water-Loss Management under Data Scarcity: Case Study in a Small Municipality in a Developing Country
(ASCE, 3/1/2020 1)Urban areas are facing challenges for the provision of public services, with water scarcity arising as one of the main problems. A twin track approach of supply and demand management is essential, and water-loss management ... -
Multiobjective Direct Policy Search Using Physically Based Operating Rules in Multireservoir Systems
(ASCE, 4/1/2020 1)This study explores the ways to introduce physical interpretability into the process of optimizing operating rules for multireservoir systems with multiple objectives. Prior studies applied the concept of direct policy ... -
Efficient Technique for Pipe Roughness Calibration and Sensor Placement for Water Distribution Systems
(ASCE, 1/1/2020 1)The need to improve the accuracy of mathematical models describing hydraulic networks (e.g., water distribution systems) poses numerous challenges regarding the problems of parameter calibration and optimal sampling. ... -
Using Agent-Based Modeling for Water Resources Management in the Bakken Region
(ASCE, 1/1/2020 1)Most agent-based model (ABM) applications in water resources management and planning relied on hypothetical systems for method testing and policy analysis. Although these ABM studies can help provide guidance for evaluating ... -
Real-Time River Flood Control under Historical and Future Climatic Conditions: Flanders Case Study
(ASCE, 1/1/2020 1)Model predictive control (MPC) has shown to be an efficient technique for real-time flood control. The evaluation of the control performance is, however, typically restricted to a limited set of flood events. In this paper, ... -
Performance Assessment of Water Distribution Systems Subject to Leakage and Temporal Variability of Water Demand
(ASCE, 1/1/2020 1)A water distribution system (WDS) is designed and managed to provide a reliable water supply, that is, to properly respond to water user demand, particularly in critical operating conditions such as in times of peak demand. ... -
Bottom-Up Generation of Water Demands to Preserve Basic Statistics and Rank Cross-Correlations of Measured Time Series
(ASCE, 1/1/2020 1)This paper presents a novel methodology for the generation of demand time series at water distribution network (WDN) users. After subdividing the day into an integer number of time steps with order of magnitude of 1 h, ... -
Burst Detection by Analyzing Shape Similarity of Time Series Subsequences in District Metering Areas
(ASCE, 1/1/2020 1)The paper proposes a burst detection method that relies on shape similarity analysis of time series subsequences (i.e., slices of time series). Subsequence libraries are constructed using flow (or water demand) data. ... -
Transboundary Groundwater Cooperation among Countries of the Arabian Peninsula
(ASCE, 1/1/2020 1)Population growth, socioeonomic development, and climate change will add pressures on limited water resources, especially in the arid Arabian Peninsula countries, where overutilization of renewable and nonrenewable aquifers ... -
Collaboratively Modeling Reservoir Reoperation to Adapt to Earlier Snowmelt Runoff
(ASCE, 1/1/2020 1)Across many river basins in the arid Western United States, upstream surface water reservoirs store snowmelt runoff to meet downstream water demand. A collaborative modeling research program in the Truckee River Basin ... -
Leveraging Disparate Parcel-Level Data to Improve Classification and Analysis of Urban Nonresidential Water Demand
(ASCE, 1/1/2020 1)This study details a novel procedure for analyzing water demands in the nonresidential sector (i.e., commercial, industrial, and institutional users). Nonresidential customers are classified into “subsectors” based ... -
Water Distribution Network Reliability Assessment and Isolation Valve System
(ASCE, 1/1/2020 1)Mechanical reliability analysis of water distribution networks (WDNs) refers to the assessment to provide correct service to customers under abnormal functioning conditions due to system component failures. Mechanical ... -
Reservoir Operation Optimized for Hydropower Production Reduces Conflict with Traditional Water Uses in the Senegal River
(ASCE, 4/1/2020 1)Manantali is a dam located on the Senegal River and is mainly used for hydropower production. Before the dam’s construction, the annual river flood alimented the flood recession agriculture, a practice based on natural ... -
Hydraulic Uniformity Index for Water Distribution Networks
(ASCE, 2020)Various reliability measures have been developed to evaluate design and operational aspects of water distribution system (WDS) performance. Conventional reliability indicators mainly focus on nodal supply conditions, such ... -
Water Accounting in Western US, Australia, and Spain: Comparative Analysis
(ASCE, 2020)Water accounting—the measurement, processing, and communication of information on water availability and use—is essential for effective and sustainable water resource management. Such information becomes especially important ... -
Risk Perceptions and Adaptation to Climate Change and Sea-Level Rise: Insights from General Public Opinion Survey in Florida
(ASCE, 2020)The Everglades is a unique ecosystem in Florida that offers a variety of ecosystem services (ES), including water supply and flood risk reduction, water purification, habitats for several endemic species, and recreational ... -
Optimization Procedure for Climate Change Adaptation Investment Planning: Case of Flood Disaster Prevention in Seoul
(ASCE, 2020)With the growing trend in extreme weather events, establishing an optimal investment plan for infrastructure adaptation has attracted considerable research interest aimed at minimizing future damage in urban areas that ...