Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management: Recent submissions
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Improving Nonlinear Optimization Algorithms for BMP Implementation in a Combined Sewer System
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)Implementing best management practices (BMP) on watersheds could help mitigate the effects of urbanization and climate change on the hydrological cycle. Techniques such as retention ponds, rain gardens, infiltration trenches, ... -
Smart Water Networks and Cyber Security
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Real Time Control of a Prototype for Pressure Regulation and Energy Production in Water Distribution Networks
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)In recent years, the opportunity of coupling a pressure management strategy with power generation in water distribution networks (WDNs) has attracted increasing interest. Numerical simulations developed for a number of ... -
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Hybrid Nested Particle Swarm Optimization for a Waste Load Allocation Problem in River System
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)The aim of this article is to develop a hybrid nested particle swarm optimization to solve a Pigovian tax-based waste load allocation problem for river systems. The river system at the Tuojiang River basin is the prototype ... -
Numerical Simulation of Pressure Transients in Water Supply Networks as Applicable to Critical Water Pipe Asset Management
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)It is well known that internal water pressure, including pressure transients, in water supply networks is a major contributing factor in many pipe failures. Reliable prediction of pipe failures needs accurate information ... -
Optimization of Pump Operation Using Rule-Based Controls in EPANET2: New ETTAR Toolkit and Correction of Energy Computation
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)The optimization of pump operations has the potential to reduce operational costs, while still maintaining the high level of reliability required of water distribution systems. The hydraulic software EPANET2 toolkit has ... -
Erratum for “Energy Metrics for Water Distribution System Assessment: Case Study of the Toronto Network” by Rebecca Dziedzic and Bryan W. Karney
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Integrating Equality and Stability to Resolve Water Allocation Issues with a Multiobjective Bilevel Programming Model
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)With rapid economic and social development, increasing water demands have made water scarcity a worldwide issue. Equitable, stable, and efficient water allocation, which includes water resources management and conflicting ... -
Climate Change and Water Resources: Some Adaptation Tools and Their Limits
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Estimating Water Supply Infrastructure Cost Using Regression Techniques
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)The current paper aims at the establishment and validation of reference cost functions for different types of assets of water supply systems based on known hydraulic (e.g., flow, pump head, pump power) and physical ... -
Selection of Pumping Configuration for Closed Water Distribution Systems
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)This paper provides an insight into the selection of the most suitable configuration for closed distribution systems (i.e., systems with no storage capacity). The analysis is developed considering a wide ranges of ... -
Selecting Stochastic Climate Realizations to Efficiently Explore a Wide Range of Climate Risk to Water Resource Systems
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)There are significant computational requirements for assessing climate change impacts on water resource system reliability and vulnerability, particularly when analyzing a wide range of plausible scenarios. These requirements ... -
Integrated Planning of Urban Water Resources and Water Pollution Control Management: Case of Urumqi, China
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)Water scarcity and aquatic environment deterioration have become increasingly serious problems in Urumqi, China. To alleviate the conflicts arising from competitive water users and retard the environment degradation, an ... -
Improving Short-Term Urban Water Demand Forecasts with Reforecast Analog Ensembles
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)Urban water demand forecasting is key to municipal water supply management. Short-term urban water demands are influenced by weather conditions. Thus, short-term urban water demand forecasting could be improved by using ... -
Hydraulic Simulation Techniques for Water Distribution Networks to Treat Pressure Deficient Conditions
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)Hydraulic analysis schemes for water distribution networks can be divided into demand-driven analysis (DDA) and pressure-driven analysis (PDA) according to the ways of calculating available outflow at nodes based on the ... -
Sensitivity Analysis of a Transient-Based Frequency Domain Method for Extended Blockage Detection in Water Pipeline Systems
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)Partial blockages are commonly formed in water supply pipelines due to many factors, such as deposition, biofilm, and corrosion in the natural water supply process, as well as valve throttle in the artificial construction ... -
Daily Generation Scheduling of Cascade Hydro Plants Considering Peak Shaving Constraints
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)This paper considers the operation of hydro plants, tackles the problem of daily hydro-generation scheduling (DHGS), and obtains the optimal hourly operation of cascade hydropower reservoirs. To meet the practical operational ... -
Observability Analysis in Water Transport Networks: Algebraic Approach
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)State estimation (SE) techniques are being applied to different network systems in order to convert system measurements into real information about the network state. SE applications to water systems are relatively novel, ... -
Benchmarking Nonresidential Water Use Efficiency Using Parcel-Level Data
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)Past studies of commercial, industrial, and institutional (CII) water use efficiency have been limited to simple normalization benchmarking measures. Simple normalization ratios (e.g., water use per employee) account ...