Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management: Recent submissions
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Accelerating a Many-Scenario Water Resources Simulation
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2026)AbstractWe present a new approach to water resource simulation that exploits modern CPU hardware and instructions. The approach simulates multiple scenarios in parallel using single-instruction, multiple-data (SIMD) ... -
Energy Dissipation in Intermittent Water Supplies Depends on Household Behavior
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)AbstractIntermittent water supply (IWS) is a persistent reality for 1 billion people. Support from water users can be vital to the success of IWS improvement projects. It is often presumed that users’ experiences will ... -
Anomaly Recognition in Water Pipe Systems Using a Characterization Framework and Persistent Hydraulic Transient Waves
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)AbstractAnomaly detection in pipe networks is critical for targeted maintenance within water distribution systems. A paired impulse response function (termed paired-IRF) technique to detect anomalies in pipe networks has ... -
Quantifying the Impact of Climate Change and Human Activities on Multiobjective Water Resource Management in the Hanjiang River Basin, China
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)AbstractThe water resources system is at risk of water deficit due to climate change and significant agricultural and industrial development. Comprehensively quantifying the impact of climate change or human activities on ... -
Relationship between Environmental Values and the Evaluation of Watershed Conservation Plans that Benefit the Community Versus the Individual
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2026)AbstractPrevious work has shown that human values can directly affect behavior and decision-making. Here, we investigated how the four human values thought to underlie environmental beliefs and behaviors (altruistic, ... -
Water Resource Allocation Management and Dam Catchment Performance Evaluation Using the WEAP Model: A Case Study of Iran’s Bakhtegan Catchment
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)AbstractMeeting water demands with high reliability and allocation priority in watershed-delineated areas is an important challenge for decision-makers, especially in drought-prone regions. The purpose of this study is to ... -
The Relationship between Water Consumption and Economic Growth at the National, Regional, and Provincial Levels in China
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)AbstractBalancing economic growth with water consumption is essential for sustainable development. Water scarcity caused by vigorous economic expansion can be alleviated with balance. This paper employs the reduced-form ... -
A Multiscale Method to Improve Social Vulnerability Estimation for Water Infrastructure System Planning and Management
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)AbstractIn recent years, concerns have grown over the risks posed by climate change, droughts, floods, and other hazards to the most vulnerable populations. As a result, the quantification of socioecologic vulnerability ... -
Water Balance Modeling as a Tool for Assessing the Inventory Flows of Urban Water Systems and Water Consumption in Buildings
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)AbstractA water balance modeling method was developed and applied to assess the water flow impact on urban water systems and water consumption in buildings. The method is based on the computational tool Aquacycle and a ... -
A Multistep Optimization Approach to Rehabilitate a Deteriorated and Intermittent Water Distribution Network
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)AbstractIntermittent water supply increases operational and maintenance costs for the water utilities and leads to a negative impact on the customers. In the context of the Battle of Intermittent Water Supply (BIWS), a ... -
Finite-Difference Spreadsheet Calculation of Stream Depletion through Confined and Delayed-Yield Aquifers with Streambed Incision and Bank Flux
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)AbstractThe Delayed Impact Calculator (the Calculator) is a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet workbook programmed with Visual Basic for Applications macro code to streamline finite-difference quantification of dynamic stream-aquifer ... -
Managing Peak Water Demand Behavior through Dynamic Tariffs
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Water supply pipe network infrastructure and pumps are designed to meet peak water demand. A 4-month dynamic tariff intervention was conducted to manage peak demand and reduce costs for sustainable waterworks. Dynamic ... -
Conceptual Framework for Leak Development in Water Distribution Systems
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Water distribution systems, like all infrastructure, are subject to deterioration and failure, but their buried nature makes continuous condition monitoring impractical. This means that the pipe failure rate is often the ... -
Water Pressure Prediction in a Water Supply Network Using the Informer Framework
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Water pressure scheduling is important for the normal operation of urban water supply networks, and water pressure prediction provides the basis and guidance for water pressure scheduling. Informer, as a deep learning model ... -
A Weighted Likelihood Ensemble Approach for Failure Prediction of Water Pipes
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)This paper presents a novel weighted likelihood ensemble approach for predicting pipe failures in water distribution networks (WDNs). The proposed method leverages ensemble modeling, specifically stacking, to enhance ... -
Graph-Based Genetic Algorithm for Localization of Multiple Existing Leakages in Water Distribution Networks
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Water utility operators prioritize timely repairs of leakages, an activity that refers to a challenging task by the spatial localization of multiple existing leakages within a water distribution network (WDN). In the ... -
Tracking Crack Development in Smart Water Networks Using IoT Acoustic Sensors
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Internet of Things (IoT) technologies with distributed wireless sensors have been increasingly adopted in water utilities to build smart water networks (SWNs) for monitoring purposes. Based on the daily data collected from ... -
Enhancing Automated Acoustic Leak Detection in a Water Distribution Network Using Ensemble Machine Learning
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The water distribution network (WDN) constitutes a pivotal and valuable asset in municipal infrastructure, yet aging pipelines often contend with leaks. Wireless noise loggers have emerged as a promising technology for ... -
Hydraulic Model–Based Methods with Sequential Parameter Tuning for Localizing Leaks in Water Supply Networks
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)In this paper, two novel hydraulic model–based leak localization methods are presented and investigated. These are the iterative regularized inverse method (IRIM) and the tuned sensitivity matrix method (TSMM). Sequential ... -
Balancing Operating Stability and Cost-Effectiveness of Axial Units through a New Operational Model
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The traditional operational model for axial units in water supply systems has typically prioritized pumping efficiency or the reduction of electricity costs while neglecting the crucial aspect of operating stability. This ...