Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management: Recent submissions
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Flood Control through Engineered Avulsions and Floodways in the Lower Yellow River
(ASCE, 2020)Due to high in-channel sedimentation rates, the Yellow River Delta of China has changed course frequently in its history, with huge socioeconomic impacts. The following questions are addressed: What is the best timing and ... -
Uncertainty in Bottom-Up Vulnerability Assessments of Water Supply Systems due to Regional Streamflow Generation under Changing Conditions
(ASCE, 2020)Changing natural streamflow conditions apply pressure on water supply systems globally. Understanding potential vulnerabilities using IPCC-endorsed top-down impact assessments, however, is limited due to uncertainties in ... -
Using Smart Demand-Metering Data and Customer Characteristics to Investigate Influence of Weather on Water Consumption in the UK
(ASCE, 2020)Predicting water demand is necessary to ensure a secure water supply to homes and businesses. With great uncertainty around future changes in the climate and in UK households, it is essential to accurately determine the ... -
Simulating Hydropower Discharge using Multiple Decision Tree Methods and a Dynamical Model Merging Technique
(ASCE, 2020)Hydropower release decision making relies on multisource information, such as climate conditions, downstream water quality, inflow and storage, regulation and engineering constraints, and so on. The decision tree (DT) ... -
A Spectral Approach to Uncertainty Quantification in Water Distribution Networks
(ASCE, 2020)To date, the hydraulics of water distribution networks are calculated using deterministic models. Because many of the parameters in these models are not known exactly, it is important to evaluate the effects of their ... -
Synthesis of Irrigation Water Use in the United States: Spatiotemporal Patterns
(ASCE, 2020)The role of large-scale drivers—climate, population, and adaption of efficient irrigation practices—in controlling irrigation water use efficiency has rarely been addressed. The primary objectives of our study are to ... -
Chronic and Acute Coastal Flood Risks to Assets and Communities in Southeast Florida
(ASCE, 2020)Chronic and acute coastal flood risks in Miami-Dade County are assessed over the range of sea-level rise (SLR) scenarios for the coming decades. The HAZUS-MH coastal flood hazard modeling and loss estimation tool are used ... -
Assessing the Performance of Surrogate Measures for Water Distribution Network Reliability
(ASCE, 2020)This paper investigates the use of surrogate measures as potential substitutes for reliability in multiobjective design of water distribution networks (WDNs). Assessing WDN reliability with conventional hydraulic and ... -
Use of Hydraulically Operated PRVs for Pressure Regulation and Power Generation in Water Distribution Networks
(ASCE, 2020)In recent years, power generation has been coupled with pressure regulation to optimize management of water distribution networks, also showing attractive revenues and short payback periods. A recent study proposed a ... -
PIE Index: Quantifying Stakeholder Engagement on Urban Water System Projects and Initiatives
(ASCE, 2020)Recent water crises showed that excluding community stakeholders in urban water system decision-making throughout can have an adverse effect on the entire community and decrease system resilience. Although engineering ... -
Quantifying Resilience via Multiscale Feedback Loops in Water Distribution Networks
(ASCE, 2020)Water distribution network (WDN) resilience depends on both the underlying flow dynamics and the network topology. Although existing literature has examined a variety of complex network centrality and spectral properties, ... -
Integration and Evaluation of Forecast-Informed Multiobjective Reservoir Operations
(ASCE, 2020)Incorporating streamflow forecasts into reservoir operations can improve water resources management efficiency, yet the forecast value in multipurpose reservoir systems is rarely investigated, let alone the relationship ... -
How Do Price Surcharges Impact Water Utility Financial Incentives to Pursue Alternative Supplies during Drought?
(ASCE, 2020)Municipal water utilities commonly manage drought by encouraging conservation. Efforts to temporarily reduce water consumption can cost significantly less than investments in infrastructure to increase supply. However, ... -
Coastal Groundwater Management by an Uncertainty-Based Parallel Decision Model
(ASCE, 2020)Seawater intrusion is a common problem in coastal aquifers and can be intensified by various factors, such as unplanned groundwater extraction. Hence, making appropriate decisions for coastal groundwater management is ... -
Conceptual Design Framework for Coastal Flood Best Management Practices
(ASCE, 2020)Over the past few decades, the development of municipal societies along flood-prone areas such as waterfronts and riverbanks has increased rapidly, causing flood-induced disasters more often than ever before. Flood defense ... -
Burst Detection in District Metering Areas Using Deep Learning Method
(ASCE, 2020)Water loss reduction is important in sustainable water resource management. As one of the main water loss control methods, early detection of hydraulic accidents in district metering areas (DMAs) has emerged as a research ... -
Arid Inland Community Survey on Water Knowledge, Trust, and Potable Reuse. II: Predictive Modeling
(ASCE, 2020)Demographic and contextual factors have been shown to influence acceptance of water reuse but have not been adequately studied in an arid inland context. The authors conducted a survey of 4,000 water utility customers in ... -
Arid Inland Community Survey on Water Knowledge, Trust, and Potable Reuse. I: Description of Findings
(ASCE, 2020)Planned potable water reuse has the potential to improve the sustainability and reliability of water supplies, but implementation has faced public acceptance challenges. Although the US Department of the Interior has ... -
Optimal Intervention Planning: A Bottom-Up Approach to Renewing Aging Water Infrastructure
(ASCE, 2020)Water distribution is an essential service provided in cities. To ensure that the public has access to high quality drinking water in sufficient quantity at all times, intervention programs must be determined to replace ... -
Low-Flow Trends at Southeast United States Streamflow Gauges
(ASCE, 2020)Water management and infrastructure design depend on quantifying thresholds in minimum flows. Decreasing trends in low flows have been observed at many stream gauges in the Southeast US; however, a comprehensive quantitative ...