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Armando Di Nardo, Carlo Giudicianni, Roberto Greco, Manuel Herrera and Giovanni F. Santonastaso
Cities depend on multiple heterogeneous, interconnected infrastructures to provide safe water to consumers. Given this complexity, efficient numerical techniques are needed to support optimal control and management of a water distribution network (WDN). ...
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Mbemmo Fotso Jacques Sylvain, Tamo Tatietse Thomas and Zineb Simeu-Abazi
The optimal management of a potable water distribution system requires the control of the reference (standard) data, the control points, control of the drainage parameters (pressure, flow, etc.) and maintenance parameters. The control of the mentioned da...
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Dragan A. Savic, Mark S. Morley and Mehdi Khoury
Water systems planning and management share the same roots with gaming, as they rely on concepts in systems analysis, operations research and decision sciences. This paper focuses on Serious Games (those used for purposes other than mere entertainment), ...
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Dragan A. Savic, Mark S. Morley, Mehdi Khoury
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Water systems planning and management share the same roots with gaming, as they rely on concepts in systems analysis, operations research and decision sciences. This paper focuses on Serious Games (those used for purposes other than mere entertainment), ...
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Luis E. Camilo Rosado, P. Amparo López-Jiménez, Francisco-Javier Sánchez-Romero, Pilar Conejos Fuertes and Modesto Pérez-Sánchez
Sustainable development has been an idea raised in recent years. The results are related to the improvement and the use of new technologies to maximize efficiency in water management. However, energy consumption has been increasing as a consequence of ne...
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Vincenzo Torretta, Athanasia K. Tolkou, Ioannis A. Katsoyiannis, Athanasios Katsoyiannis, Ettore Trulli, Elena Magaril and Elena Cristina Rada
The safety of high quality drinking water supply relies on the quantities to be delivered, on the complexity of the water supply systems, and on the widespread phenomena of the contamination of water bodies. These parameters indicate the need for the dev...
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Vincenzo Torretta, Athanasia K. Tolkou, Ioannis A. Katsoyiannis, Athanasios Katsoyiannis, Ettore Trulli, Elena Magaril and Elena Cristina Rada
The safety of high quality drinking water supply relies on the quantities to be delivered, on the complexity of the water supply systems, and on the widespread phenomena of the contamination of water bodies. These parameters indicate the need for the dev...
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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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Érico Soares Ascenção, Fernando Melo Marinangelo, Carlos Frederico Meschini Almeida, Nelson Kagan and Eduardo Mário Dias
Issues such as climate change, water scarcity, population growth, and distribution losses have stimulated the use of new technologies to manage water resources. This is how the concept of smart water management emerged as a subcategory of the concept of ...
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Ilona ?akurova, Vitalijus Kondrat, Egle Baltranaite and Vita Gardauske
The Lithuanian coastal area is divided by the jetties of the Port of Klaipeda and represents two geomorphologically distinct parts. Local companies and institutions contribute to shaping the coastal area through infrastructure development. Awareness of t...
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Widyo Nugroho, Christiono Utomo and Nur Iriawan
The sustainable management of the water supply system requires methodologies to monitor, repair, or replace the aging infrastructure, but more importantly, it must be able to assess the condition of the networks and predict their behavior over time. Amon...
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Marcela Montserrat Landero Figueroa, Miles J. G. Parsons, Benjamin J. Saunders and Iain M. Parnum
Spatially explicit information on coral fish species abundance and distribution is required for effective management. Nonextractive techniques, including echosounders and video census, can be particularly useful in marine reserves where the use of extrac...
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Mitja Jan?a, Joerg Prestor, Simona Pestotnik and Brigita Jamnik
The assurance of drinking water supply is one of the biggest emerging global challenges, especially in urban areas. In this respect, groundwater and its management in the urban environment are gaining importance. This paper presents the modeling of nitro...
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Sophia Ferng, Ching-Hua Ting, Chien-Ping Wu, Yung-Tsong Lu, Cheng-Kuang Hsu, Robin Yih-Yuan Chiou
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Compartment modelling has been successfully used in pharmacokinetics to describe the kinetics of drug distribution in body tissues. In this study, the technique is adopted to describe the dynamics of temperature response and energy exchange in a soy mash...
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Delia Ventura, Simona Consoli, Salvatore Barbagallo, Alessia Marzo, Daniela Vanella, Feliciana Licciardello and Giuseppe L. Cirelli
This study reports an up-to-date summary of the principal barriers still limiting reclaimed water use for agriculture in Italy, and particularly in Sicily. Moreover, it provides a geographic informative system (GIS)-based procedure for evaluating the pot...
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Marianna D?Ercole, Maurizio Righetti, Gema Sakti Raspati, Paolo Bertola and Rita Maria Ugarelli
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 ...
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Marianna D?Ercole, Maurizio Righetti, Gema Sakti Raspati, Paolo Bertola and Rita Maria Ugarelli
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 ...
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Szymon Szewranski, Jakub Chruscinski, Joost Van Hoof, Jan K. Kazak, Malgorzata Swiader, Katarzyna Tokarczyk-Dorociak and Romuald Zmuda
The interplay of an ever-growing number of inhabitants, sprawl development, soil sealing, changes in urban traffic characteristics, as well as observed climate trends gives rise to more frequent pluvial flooding in cities, a higher run-off of water, and ...
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Sangmin Shin, Seungyub Lee, David R. Judi, Masood Parvania, Erfan Goharian, Timothy McPherson and Steven J. Burian
Over the past few decades, the concept of resilience has emerged as an important consideration in the planning and management of water infrastructure systems. Accordingly, various resilience measures have been developed for the quantitative evaluation an...
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Armando Carravetta, Lauro Antipodi, Umberto Golia and Oreste Fecarotta
The management of a water distribution network (WDN) is performed by valve and pump control, to regulate both the pressure and the discharge between certain limits. The energy that is usually merely dissipated by valves can instead be converted and used ...
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