Basic Principles of a DSS Tool Developed to Prioritize NRW Reduction Measures in Water Pipe Networks

Kanakoudis, Vasilis; Cerk, Matej; Banovec, Primož; Samaras, P.; Zouboulis, Anastasios

doi:10.1007/s12403-014-0111-0

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“…EWQMS also assists water utilities in monitoring the water balance, identifying water losses in the distribution systems, thus reducing overall water consumption. Water leakage from aging infrastructure poses a challenge for water supplies, particularly in areas that are struggling to support the growing demand [Kanakoudis et al, 2013a;Kanakoudis et al, 2014]. The daily water loss through leakage, which is estimated to represent about 40%e 50% of the total daily water consumption [Tucciarelli et al, 1999], is associated to the waste of a large amount of energy [Nasirian et al, 2013].…”

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Energy and water quality management systems for water utility's operations: A review

Cherchi¹,

Badruzzaman²,

Oppenheimer³

et al. 2015

Journal of Environmental Management

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Energy and water quality management systems for water utility's operations: A review

Cherchi¹,

Badruzzaman²,

Oppenheimer³

et al. 2015

Journal of Environmental Management

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“…Evaluating the performance of the customer area is complex but very important. To achieve this, it is necessary to structure the problem taking into account all the elements in a hierarchy tree structure (Kanakoudis et al, , 2015. Beforehand, the main objective studied will be defined by 'Better listening to customer claims'.…”

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Evaluating the policy of listening to customer claims in a drinking water utility using fuzzy-AHP approach and WASPAS method

2020

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The objective of this work is to develop a decision support methodology intended for drinking water utility managers in order to support them in the challenge of achieving better performance in the management of the customer area. This methodology requires the prior collection of data for the identification of registered claims. Subsequently, an evaluation of the performance of the customer area defined by the objective ‘Better listening to customer claims’ will be carried out; this requires the structuring of the objective in a hierarchy based on indicators and the adoption of two adequate decision support tools, a fuzzy-AHP for weighting the elements and WASPAS for calculating the performance of the objective. An application is carried out on the water utility of the Wilaya of Bejaia (Algeria). The data collection enabled the identification of 19 types of claims divided into three aspects. The combination of fuzzy-AHP and WASPAS allowed assessment of the performance of the objective during the period 2014–2018 and to make a judgment on the national policy established. The results are satisfactory. Progress has been made in claims management, but the major difficulty lies in the claims processing relating to the quantitative aspect.

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“…Such indicators were then studied, improved and implemented [20][21][22][23][24]. Several authors [12,25,26] evaluated reliability by using performance indicators on the basis of the ratio between volumes actually delivered during the evaluation period and the volume required at a given node.…”

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

D’Ercole

Righetti

Raspati

et al. 2018

Water

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Abstract:The efficient and effective management of existing water distribution systems (WDSs) faces challenges related to aging of infrastructure, population growth, extended urbanization, climate change impacts and environmental pollution. Therefore, there is a need for integrated solutions that support decision makers to plan today potential interventions, considering the possible consequences and variations in mid-and long-term perspectives. This study is a part of a more comprehensive project, where advanced hydraulic analysis of WDS is coupled with a dynamic resources input-output analysis model. The proposed modeling solution provides a robust tool to support planning of intervention actions and can be applied to optimize the performance of a water supply system considering energy consumption and environmental impacts. This paper presents an application of the proposed method in pipe rehabilitation/replacement planning, maximizing the network mechanical reliability and minimizing the risk of unsupplied water demand and pressure deficit evaluated at nodal level, under given economic constraints.

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Basic Principles of a DSS Tool Developed to Prioritize NRW Reduction Measures in Water Pipe Networks

Cited by 18 publications

References 7 publications

Energy and water quality management systems for water utility's operations: A review

Energy and water quality management systems for water utility's operations: A review

Evaluating the policy of listening to customer claims in a drinking water utility using fuzzy-AHP approach and WASPAS method

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

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