Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management: Recent submissions
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Comparing the Economic and Environmental Effects of Different Water Management Schemes Using a Coupled Agent–Hydrologic Model
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)Confronted with diverse water management schemes, policymakers in arid basins face difficulty in choosing a particular scheme due to a lack of appropriate tools to estimate possible physical and economic outcomes in a ... -
Effects of Hydrologic Conditions and Reservoir Operation on Transboundary Cooperation in the Lancang–Mekong River Basin
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)Multiple stakeholders in transboundary river basins would benefit from cooperation, but how and why stakeholders can achieve this cooperation remains difficult to determine. This paper proposes an approach for analyzing ... -
New Transboundary Hydrographic Data Set for Advancing Regional Hydrological Modeling and Water Resources Management
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)The authors document the development and testing of a new suite of hydrologic and hydraulic data for the customization of the new National Water Model (NWM) to the Great Lakes basin. The NWM was recently (August 2016) ... -
Assessing Conjunctive Use Opportunities with Stakeholders in the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)The management of global water resources is increasingly contested. Australia’s Murray-Darling Basin (MDB) is an example relevant to many semiarid basins around the world. In the MDB, government has recovered substantial ... -
Using Seasonal Forecasts to Inform Water Market-Scale Option Contracts
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)Option contracts have been successfully established in water-scare regions to facilitate temporary transfers of water between users. The benefits are clear when the contract water quantity can be guaranteed by the seller. ... -
Machine Learning for Modeling Water Demand
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)This work shows the application of machine learning (ML) methods to the modeling of water demand for the first time. Classification and regression trees (CART) and random forest (RF), a multivariate, spatially nonstationary ... -
Optimal Irrigation with Perfect Weekly Forecasts versus Imperfect Seasonal Forecasts
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)This study examines the impact of weekly and seasonal weather forecasts on the optimal irrigation scheduling problem. We compare stochastic and deterministic simulation-optimization frameworks for irrigation scheduling ... -
Estimating Profit, Price, and Productivity Changes in Water Industry Using Bennet-Bowley Indicator
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)The assessment of profit, productivity, and price change over time is valuable for regulators and companies when setting tariffs. This paper innovates by comparing profit, price, and productivity changes for English and ... -
Cost Model for Pumps as Turbines in Run-of-River and In-Pipe Microhydropower Applications
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)Pumps as Turbines (PATs) are standard water pumps utilized as hydraulic turbines by reversing the flow direction across them. The off-the-shelf availability of water pumps and their reduced purchase price with respect to ... -
Comparison of Surrogate Models Based on Different Sampling Methods for Groundwater Remediation
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)To assess the influence of sampling methods on surrogate models’ accuracy, using two test problems and a nitrobenzene-contaminated aquifer remediation problem, several sampling methods were adopted to collect sample data ... -
Model Reduction and Outer Approximation for Optimizing the Placement of Control Valves in Complex Water Networks
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)The optimal placement and operation of pressure control valves in water distribution networks is a challenging engineering problem. When formulated in a mathematical optimization framework, this problem results in a nonconvex ... -
Simulation-Optimization Model to Derive Operation Rules of Multiple Cascaded Reservoirs for Nash Equilibrium
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)Operation rules are commonly used to make decisions for cascaded hydropower reservoirs for profit maximization, given the energy price of current and future periods. For large-scale cascaded hydropower reservoirs whose ... -
Reservoir Operations under Changing Climate Conditions: Hydropower-Production Perspective
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)Climate change has significant effects on the management of complex water resource systems. The objective of this study was to assess climate change effects on reservoir system operations. The assessment was performed using ... -
Examining Trade-Offs in Piggybacking Flow Events while Making Environmental Release Decisions in a River System
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)High flow pulses (or spells or freshes) play a crucial role in maintaining the ecological health of a river system. Impoundment of water in a reservoir and release or diversion of water for human water needs has significantly ... -
Potential Implications of Groundwater Trading and Reformed Water Rights in Diamond Valley, Nevada
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)This paper presents an ex ante analysis of a novel groundwater management reform being considered by irrigators in the Diamond Valley, Nevada. Groundwater extraction for irrigation in the valley has considerably exceeded ... -
Objective Functions for Transient-Based Pipeline Leakage Detection in a Noisy Environment: Least Square and Matched-Filter
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)This paper addresses leak detection in the presence of measurement noise using the inverse transient method (ITM). The unknown leak parameters are determined by optimizing a merit function, which fits the numerically modeled ... -
Experimental Study of Dynamic Effects of Iron Bacteria–Formed Biofilms on Pipeline Head Loss and Roughness
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)This research investigated the dynamic effects of iron bacteria–formed biofilms and associated material accumulation on pipeline head loss and roughness for the Salt Interception Scheme (SIS) in South Australia. Two case ... -
Hybrid Statistical Process Control Method for Water Distribution Pipe Burst Detection
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)Statistical process control (SPC) identifies any nonrandom patterns in the system output variables of a water distribution system (WDS) by comparing them to their normal historic mean and variance. While each SPC method ... -
Overcoming Obstacles to Deficit Irrigation: Colorado Case Study
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)Deficit irrigation, or the deliberate underirrigation of a crop, is a way to save farm water and allocate it to uses such as municipal, industrial, or agricultural expansion. Research on this practice has focused on ... -
Hanging Gardens Algorithm to Generate Decentralized Layouts for the Optimization of Urban Drainage Systems
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)Traditional urban drainage systems rely heavily on centralized network-based infrastructures. Recently, the idea of centralized urban drainage networks has increasingly been questioned. The latest investigations suggest a ...