Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management: Recent submissions
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Pakistan’s Water Apportionment Accord of 1991: 25 Years and Beyond
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)The apportionment of waters of the Indus River System between the provinces of Pakistan is widely hailed as a historic agreement. This agreement (herein referred to as the Accord) was signed into effect in 1991, just over ... -
Determining the Optimal BMP Arrangement under Current and Future Climate Regimes: Case Study
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)As watersheds are urbanized, the amount of impervious surfaces will be increased. As such, water infiltration will be reduced, and the volume of surface runoff will be increased. By retaining stormwater, best management ... -
Trade-Offs between Phosphorous Discharge and Hydropower Production Using Reservoir Regulation
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)The management of water flow using reservoirs for the purpose of hydropower production can have significant impacts on solute transport. Reducing the phosphorous load to downstream areas can be of great importance for ... -
Systems Analysis and Optimization of Local Water Supplies in Los Angeles
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)Los Angeles, which relies on large infrastructure systems that import water over hundreds of miles, faces a future of reduced imports. Within Los Angeles and its hundreds of water agencies, the capacity to adapt to future ... -
Evaluation of Drought Severity with a Bayesian Network Analysis of Multiple Drought Indices
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)Drought indices assimilate meteorological and/or hydrological information to come up with a comprehensible index. Over the last few decades, hundreds of drought indices have been developed in order to improve monitoring ... -
Stochastic Optimization Model for Supporting Urban Drainage Design under Complexity
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)A stochastic optimization model for urban drainage design (SODD) was proposed in this study to help analyze the trade-off between investment and acceptable flood damage in urban drainage designs considering effects of both ... -
Design of a Distribution Network Scale Model for Monitoring Drinking Water Quality
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)To investigate transport of drinking water in topologically complex distribution networks and associated monitoring problems, experimental facilities can provide a relevant complement to numerical models and living ... -
Effects of Long-Term Flow Variation on Microhydropower Energy Production in Pressure Reducing Valves in Water Distribution Networks
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)Incorporating microhydropower (MHP) turbines within water supply networks has the potential to improve the economic and environmental sustainability of the sector. However, long-term flow and head variations in water ... -
Water–Energy–Carbon Nexus Modeling for Urban Water Systems: System Dynamics Approach
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)A comprehensive water-energy-carbon (WEC) nexus model for an urban water system (UWS) using system dynamics is proposed to assist municipalities, urban developers, and policy makers for neighborhood water planning and ... -
Effectiveness of Smart Meter-Based Consumption Feedback in Curbing Household Water Use: Knowns and Unknowns
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)Adaptive approaches are required to counteract the mounting threats to water security. Demand management will feature centrally in such adaptations. The increase in the use of smart-meter technology offers an improved way ... -
Multilevel Factorial Fractional Programming for Sustainable Water Resources Management
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)The need for more efficient water use has increased in importance with growing water scarcity and increasing competition among water users. Measuring the economic efficiency of water use has become a useful indicator for ... -
Modeling the Agricultural Water–Energy–Food Nexus in the Indus River Basin, Pakistan
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)Nexus thinking is critical to jointly address growing water, energy, and food security challenges. This paper evaluates the water, energy, and food nexus (WEFN) in the Indus River of Pakistan using the Indus Basin Model ... -
Optimal Selective Withdrawal Rules Using a Coupled Data Mining Model and Genetic Algorithm
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)This work presents a methodology for extracting optimal operational rules for selective reservoir water withdrawal by considering fixed levels of reservoir water outlets for thermal control. The outlet water temperature ... -
Field-Oriented Methodology for Real-Time Pressure Control to Reduce Leakage in Water Distribution Networks
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)In this paper, a novel field-oriented methodology to setup real-time control (RTC) for leakage reduction by pressure control valves in water distribution networks is presented. The paper introduces modalities to address ... -
Water Distribution Systems Reliability: A Review of Research Literature
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)Every water distribution system (WDS) fails partially or completely at some point or points during its lifetime. Measurement of reliability for a WDS under various failure conditions is necessary. Numerous techniques have ... -
Opportunity and Economic Feasibility of Inline Microhydropower Units in Water Supply Networks
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)Small-scale hydropower is emerging as a decentralized source to satisfy local demand for electricity. In water supply systems, microhydropower can be used for energy recovery associated with excessive pressure control. ... -
Dispersed Storage as Stormwater Runoff Control in Consolidated Urban Watersheds with Flash Flood Risk
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)This article presents the results of analyzing the use of dispersed storage tanks as a low impact development (LID) alternative to mitigate the flash flood risk in consolidated urban watersheds in Barranquilla, Colombia. ... -
Leakage Zone Identification in Large-Scale Water Distribution Systems Using Multiclass Support Vector Machines
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)This paper presents a new method for identifying leakage zones of water distribution systems. A large water network is first divided into a number of zones. The zone number is used as the category label of the multiclass ... -
Surrogate-Based Sensitivity Analysis and Uncertainty Analysis for DNAPL-Contaminated Aquifer Remediation
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)To limit the high cost of surfactant-enhanced aquifer remediation (SEAR) for clearing dense nonaqueous phase liquids (DNAPLs), the simulation-optimization technique is generally adopted for determining the optimal remediation ... -
Improved Ant Colony Optimization for Optimal Crop and Irrigation Water Allocation by Incorporating Domain Knowledge
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)An improved ant colony optimization (ACO) formulation for the allocation of crops and water to different irrigation areas is developed. The formulation enables dynamic decision variable option (DDVO) adjustment and makes ...