“…They make use of either the gain matrix (Monticelli and Wu, 1985a,b;Gou andAbur, 2000, 2001) or the measurement Jacobian matrix of the system (Exposito and Abur, 1998;Gou, 2006;Castillo et al, 2005Castillo et al, , 2006Castillo et al, , 2007Solares et al, 2009;Pruneda et al, 2010), which they factorize or transform to extract observability information. Some authors have adopted hybrid techniques (Contaxis and Korres, 1988;Korres and Katsikas, 2003), and other alternative approaches based on mathematical programming techniques have been briefly explored (Habiballah and Irving, 2001;Caro et al, 2013). Of all the available contributions in the technical literature, the algebraic proposal by Pruneda et al (2010) is especially suitable for water networks due to the possibility of simultaneously analyzing the observability of a set of available measurements and the remaining potential measurements in the system.…”