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Young Hwan Choi and Joong Hoon Kim
This study compares the performance of self-adaptive optimization approaches in efficient water distribution systems (WDS) design and presents a guide for the selection of the appropriate method employing optimization utilizing the characteristic of each...
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Guangyu Jiang and Zhongjing Wang
Water cycles exist in all processes of water resources utilization, including water-saving irrigation. Due to the complex water cycle process of irrigation, the ecological effects and safety of large-scale water-saving irrigation have received increasing...
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Carlo Ciaponi, Enrico Creaco, Armando Di Nardo, Michele Di Natale, Carlo Giudicianni, Dino Musmarra and Giovanni Francesco Santonastaso
This paper proposes a combined management strategy for monitoring water distribution networks (WDNs). This strategy is based on the application of water network partitioning (WNP) for the creation of district metered areas (DMAs) and on the installation ...
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Alice Zaghini, Francesca Gagliardi, Valentina Marsili, Filippo Mazzoni, Lorenzo Tirello, Stefano Alvisi and Marco Franchini
Providing water with adequate quality to users is one of the main concerns for water utilities. In most countries, this is ensured through the introduction of disinfectants, such as chlorine, which are subjected to decay over time, with consequent loss o...
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Jinming Chen, Xiao Yang, Haiya Dao, Haowen Gu, Gang Chen, Changshu Mao, Shihan Bai, Shixiang Gu, Zuhao Zhou and Ziqi Yan
Water, soil, and heat are strategic supporting elements for human survival and social development. The degree of matching between human-land-water-heat elements directly influences the sustainable development of a region. However, the current evaluation ...
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Christogonus U. Onukwube, Daniel O. Aikhuele and Shahryar Sorooshian
Water distribution networks are complex systems that aid in the delivery of water to residential and non-residential areas. However, the networks can be affected by different types of faults, which could lead to the wastage of treated water. As such, the...
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Jaehyun Shin and Dong Sop Rhee
As the frequency and intensity of natural and social disasters increase due to climate change, damage caused by disasters affects urban areas and facilities. Of those disasters, inundation occurs in urban areas due to rising water surface elevation becau...
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Guadalupe Díaz-Gutiérrez, Luis Walter Daesslé, Francisco José Del-Toro-Guerrero, Mariana Villada-Canela and Georges Seingier
Groundwater pollution is one of the main challenges in our society, especially in semi-arid Mediterranean regions. This issue becomes especially critical in predominantly agricultural areas that lack comprehensive knowledge about the characteristics and ...
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Joana Carneiro, Dália Loureiro, Marta Cabral and Dídia Covas
This paper presents and demonstrates a novel scenario-building methodology that integrates contextual and future time uncertainty into the performance assessment of water distribution networks (WDNs). A three-step approach is proposed: (i) System context...
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Valentina Pintos Andreoli, Hikari Shimadera, Hiroto Yasuga, Yutaro Koga, Motoharu Suzuki and Akira Kondo
This study developed a coupled atmospheric?marine model using the COAWST model system for the Harima Nada area between spring 2010 and winter 2011 to evaluate the seasonal influence of the Kako River?s discharge in the sea. The Kako River is one of the l...
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