Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management: Recent submissions
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Flood Protection Cost Allocation Using Cooperative Game Theory for Adapting Infrastructure to Climate Change
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)The adaptation of infrastructure to climate change has benefits in the form of reduced disaster damage within the associated area. The beneficiaries of this adaptation are parties who are motivated to take adaptation actions ... -
Understanding Apartment End-Use Water Consumption in Two Green Residential Multistory Buildings
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)The objective of this study was to gain a better understanding of the drivers of indoor water consumption in urban multistory residential buildings, to more accurately predict residential water demand, and to identify water ... -
Generating Synthetic Streamflow Forecasts with Specified Precision
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)Synthetic hydrologic forecasts are often needed to evaluate water resources planning and management strategies when appropriate historical forecasts are not available. Synthetic forecasts can be generated to evaluate system ... -
Keeping Us Honest: Examining Climate States and Transition Probabilities of Precipitation Projections in General Circulation Models
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)There is a vast amount of research on downscaling and bias-correcting general circulation model (GCM) data to a regional scale, but research is lacking on whether these techniques alter precipitation signals embedded in ... -
Assessing the Observability of Demand Pattern Multipliers in Water Distribution Systems Using Algebraic and Numerical Derivatives
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)The estimation of user demands in water distribution systems is usually based on flow and pressure measurements in the system. Even when the number of measurements is larger than or equal to the number of unknowns, the ... -
Agent-Based Modeling Approach to Investigating the Impact of Water Demand Management
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)This paper proposes an agent-based modeling approach to assess water users’ behavior for water demand management (WDM) in a river basin. In this procedure, each agent controls its own strategy regarding whether to conserve ... -
Conditional Value-at-Risk for Nonstationary Streamflow and Its Application for Derivation of the Adaptive Reservoir Flood Limited Water Level
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)The existing risk-based approaches for quantifying expected flood damage loss may not be suitable in the changing environment when streamflow becomes nonstationary. Conditional value-at-risk (CVaRα), a modified form of ... -
Delineation of Wellhead Protection Areas Containing Seepage Lakes
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)The conventional method of delineating wellhead protection areas using travel times is not well suited for application in wellfields containing seepage lakes. The concentration factor is identified as an intrinsic vulnerability ... -
Multiobjective Functions to Identify the High-Power-Density Stream Reaches in Hydropower Resource Assessment
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)A hydropower resource assessment (HRA) can be considered a reconnaissance survey in which the total hydropower potential in a region is quantified. Hydropower potential for purposes of this paper is defined as the potential ... -
Surface Water Quality Model: Impacts of Influential Variables
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)Considering all possible input (predictor) variables in a predictive water quality model is impractical owing to computational workload and complexity of the problem. Computational efficiency, as well as complexity of a ... -
Graph Partitioning in the Analysis of Pressure Dependent Water Distribution Systems
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)The forest core partitioning algorithm (FCPA) and the fast graph matrix partitioning algorithm (GMPA) have been used to improve efficiency in the determination of the steady-state heads and flows of water distribution ... -
Energy Recovery in Water Networks: Numerical Decision Support Tool for Optimal Site and Selection of Micro Turbines
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)Energy efficiency plays a large role in the sustainability effort of water utilities. In gravity-fed pipe networks that present excessive pressures, the installation of micro turbines or pumps-as-turbines for energy recovery ... -
New Constraint-Handling Technique for Evolutionary Optimization of Reservoir Operation
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)Evolutionary optimization of reservoir operation is subject to complex physical and operational constraints. Constraint-handling techniques (CHTs) in this field are predominantly problem-specific or based on certain ... -
Benchmark Performance Indicators for Utility Water and Wastewater Pipelines Infrastructure
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)Over the past decade, many performance indicators have been developed for water utilities to track their system performance. This study proposes a set of normalized and time-integrated benchmarking performance indicators ... -
Short-Term Hydropower Scheduling Model with Two Coupled Temporal Scales
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)This paper presents a short-term hydropower scheduling model to determine the number of operating units and the power in each quarter hour and for each hydroplant. A reservoir operation and hydropower unit commitment problem ... -
Assessment of Smart-Meter-Enabled Dynamic Pricing at Utility and River Basin Scale
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)The advent of smart metering is set to revolutionize many aspects of the relationship between water utilities and their customers, and this includes the possibility of using time-varying water prices as a demand management ... -
Real-Time Control of Pressure for Leakage Reduction in Water Distribution Network: Field Experiments
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)Studies have shown that real-time control (RTC) of pressure in water distribution networks (WDNs) can be very effective for leakage reduction. The aim of RTC is to regulate the pressure level over the WDN by guaranteeing ... -
Simplified Approach to Water Distribution System Management via Identification of a Primary Network
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)The traditional approach to the design of water distribution systems (WDS) is based on the concept of topological and energy redundancy, resulting in systems with many loops and with nodal pressure higher than design ... -
Robust Parameter Estimation and Output Prediction for Nonlinear Water Quality Control in Water Distribution Systems
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)An increasing shortage of drinking water resources around the world has been observed, especially for people living in absolute poverty. Hence, meeting demand for drinking water with required quality needs advanced control ... -
Evaluating Transition Probabilities for a Stochastic Dynamic Programming Model Used in Water System Optimization
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)Stochastic dynamic programming is one of the most widely used optimization techniques for water system optimization. In this study, four methods for estimating transition probabilities have been evaluated to determine how ...