Relative magnitudes of sources of uncertainty in assessing climate change impacts on water supply security for the southern Adelaide water supply system

The management of existing water distribution system (WDS) is challenged by ageing of infrastructure, population growth, increasing of urbanization, climate change impacts and environmental pollution. Therefore, there is a need for integrated solutions that support decision makers to plan today, while taking into account the effect of these factors in the mid and long term. The paper is part of a more comprehensive project, where advanced hydraulic analysis for WDS is coupled with a dynamic resources input-output analysis model. The proposed modeling solution can be used to optimize the performance of a water supply system while considering also the energy consumption and consequently the environmental impacts. Therefore, as a support tool in the management of a water supply system also in the intervention planning. Here a possible application is presented for rehabilitation/replacement planning while maximizing the network mechanical reliability and minimizing risk of unsupplied demand and pressure deficit, under given economic constraints.

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Estimating the Impacts and Uncertainty of Climate Change on a Municipal Water Supply System

Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management ◽

10.1061/(asce)0733-9496(2008)134:3(239) ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 134 (3) ◽

pp. 239-246 ◽

Cited By ~ 39

Author(s):

Matthew W. Wiley ◽

Richard N. Palmer

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Water Supply ◽

Supply System ◽

Water Supply System ◽

Municipal Water Supply ◽

Municipal Water

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Rehabilitation Planning of Water Distribution Network through a Reliability – Based Risk Assessment

10.20944/preprints201712.0120.v2 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Marianna D'Ercole ◽

Maurizio Righetti ◽

Gema Raspati ◽

Paolo Bertola ◽

Rita Maria Ugarelli

Keyword(s):

Water Supply ◽

Distribution System ◽

Water Distribution ◽

Climate Change Impacts ◽

Water Distribution Network ◽

Supply System ◽

Water Supply System ◽

Analysis Model ◽

Output Analysis ◽

Support Tool

The management of existing water distribution system (WDS) is challenged by ageing of infrastructure, population growth, increasing of urbanization, climate change impacts and environmental pollution. Therefore, there is a need for integrated solutions that support decision makers to plan today, while taking into account the effect of these factors in the mid and long term. The paper is part of a more comprehensive project, where advanced hydraulic analysis for WDS is coupled with a dynamic resources input-output analysis model. The proposed modeling solution can be used to optimize the performance of a water supply system while considering also the energy consumption and consequently the environmental impacts. Therefore, as a support tool in the management of a water supply system also in the intervention planning. Here a possible application is presented for rehabilitation/replacement planning while maximizing the network mechanical reliability and minimizing risk of unsupplied demand and pressure deficit, under given economic constraints.

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APPLICATION OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN THE WATER SUPPLY SYSTEM

Archives for Technical Sciences ◽

10.7251/afts.2020.1222.027b ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 1 (22) ◽

Author(s):

Sanel Buljubašić

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Water Management ◽

Drinking Water ◽

Water Resources ◽

Water Supply ◽

New Technologies ◽

Supply System ◽

Water Supply System ◽

Integrated Water Management

Freshwater water resources are not inexhaustible [1]. In recent decades, more and more facts point to this statement from the European Charter for Water. Uncontrolled drinking water interventions, losses in water supply and climate change indicate the problem of sufficient quantities of drinking water [2]. Looking at this problem, it is hard to believe that new quantities of drinking water can be produced. The model of integrated water management has been increasingly used in recent years. The application of new technologies in water supply creates conditions for the controlled management of water intakes and losses in water supply. Each water sapply system needs to develop its own model for integrated water management.

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