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Dean C. J. Rice, Rupp Carriveau, David S. -K. Ting and Mo?tamad H. Bata
Forecasting crop water demand is a critical part of any greenhouse?s day-to-day operations. This study focuses on a region located in Essex County, Ontario Canada where water demand is dominated by commercial greenhouse operations (78% of capacity). Deve...
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Amir Nafi and Jonathan Brans
This paper deals with the development of a decision-aiding model for predicting, in an ex-ante way, the effects of a mix of actions on an asset and on its operation. The objective is then to define a compromised policy between costs and performance impro...
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Robert B. Sowby and Braxton W. Porter
Even though drinking water utilities are not meant to fight wildfires, they quickly become stakeholders, if not first responders, when their resources are needed for firefighting. The August 2023 wildfires on the island of Maui, Hawaii, USA, have highlig...
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Konstantinos P. Tsagarakis
In addressing the topic of decision making in the water sector, what has been suggested to be useful up to this point is benchmarking. This paper aims at exploring the relationship between the Operating Cost Coverage Index and customer complaints about w...
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Natalie Chong, Peter M. Bach, Régis Moilleron, Céline Bonhomme and José-Frédéric Deroubaix
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Franz Tscheikner-Gratl, Patrick Egger, Wolfgang Rauch, Manfred Kleidorfer
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The decisions taken in rehabilitation planning for the urban water networks will have a long lasting impact on the functionality and quality of future services provided by urban infrastructure. These decisions can be assisted by different approaches rang...
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Natalie Chong, Peter M. Bach, Régis Moilleron, Céline Bonhomme and José-Frédéric Deroubaix
Effort to narrow the gap between the production and use of scientific knowledge for environmental decision-making is gaining traction, yet in practice, supply and demand remains largely unbalanced. A qualitative study based on empirical analysis offers a...
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Donald A. Forrer, Jacob Boudreau, Elizabeth Boudreau, Sheronia Garcia, Christopher Nugent, Dean Allen, Alexis C. Lubin
This study reviews ten water utilities in Florida utilizing current pricing models to determine how municipal utilities approach affordability. Water is no longer a commodity that can be taken for granted as the effects on the family budget has ris...
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Samuel de Barros Moraes,Celi Langhi,Marcos Crivelaro
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Donald A. Forrer, Michael Zimmerman, Annalise Mannix
This study describes the trials and tribulations of an Ohio township involved in maintaining utility rates at an affordable level while dealing with salt intrusion in drinking water wells that supply the Village. Emphasis is on the political, regulatory,...
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Xin Tian, Ina Vertommen, Lydia Tsiami, Peter van Thienen and Sotirios Paraskevopoulos
Most water utilities have to handle a substantial number of customer complaints every year. Traditionally, complaints are handled by skilled staff who know how to identify primary issues, classify complaints, find solutions, and communicate with customer...
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Christine Mawia Julius,Timothy C. Okech
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The purpose of the study was to examine the moderating effect of government regulation on the joint influence of water pricing, infrastructure financing, utility efficiency and subsidies on financial sustainability of Water Service Providers (WSPs) in Ke...
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Arsid Arsid,Ida Widianingsih,Heru Nurasa,Entang Adhy Muhtar
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As a strategic commodity, Indonesia?s constitution mandates the management of clean water to the local government through the Local Water Supply Utility (PDAM) which is also regulated in PP No. 122/2015 concerning Drinking Water Supply Systems. However, ...
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Didik Susetyo,Zunaidah Zunaidah,Siti Rohima,Devi Valeriani,Abdul Bashir
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The research problem is how to influence local public utility capital expenditures, the amount of household electric customers, the number of clean water customers, the number of telephone customers on the economic development of the district-city in Sum...
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Chee Hui Lai, Ngai Weng Chan, Ranjan Roy
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In contextualising the serious water loss, inefficient resource utilization, and ineffective water utility management in Malaysia, the objective of this study is to understand the public?s perception of non-revenue water (NRW) management in order to prov...
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Chee Hui Lai, Ngai Weng Chan and Ranjan Roy
In contextualising the serious water loss, inefficient resource utilization, and ineffective water utility management in Malaysia, the objective of this study is to understand the public?s perception of non-revenue water (NRW) management in order to prov...
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Ina Vertommen, Djordje Mitrovic, Karel van Laarhoven, Pieter Piens and Maarten Torbeyns
Numerical optimization is gradually finding its way into drinking water practice. For successful introduction of optimization into the sector, it is important that researchers and utility experts work together on the problem formulation with the water ut...
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Madeline A. Grupper, Madeline E. Schreiber and Michael G. Sorice
Provision of safe drinking water by water utilities is challenged by disturbances to water quality that have become increasingly frequent due to global changes and anthropogenic impacts. Many water utilities are turning to adaptable and flexible strategi...
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James F. Canning and Ashlynn S. Stillwell
Agricultural intensification has had the undesirable effect of degrading water quality throughout the United States. Nitrate pollution presents a difficult problem for rural and urban communities, and it contributes to the immense Gulf of Mexico Hypoxia ...
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Weilin Liu, Lina Liu and Fang Tong
There is an increasing trend in the use of multi-objective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs) to solve multi-objective optimization problems of the allocation of water resources. However, typically the outcome is a set of Pareto optimal solutions which make...
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