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City Blueprints: Baseline Assessments of Sustainable Water Management in 11 Cities of the Future
Leeuwen, C. - In: Water Resources Management 27 (2013) 15, pp. 5191-5206
sustainability into account. Megatrends (e.g. population growth, water scarcity, pollution and climate change) pose urgent water … sustainability of UWCS (Van Leeuwen et al., Wat Resour Manage 26:2177–2197, <CitationRef CitationID="CR33">2012</CitationRef>). In … Salaam). The assessments showed that cities vary considerably with regard to the sustainability of the UWCS. This is also …
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City Blueprints: 24 Indicators to Assess the Sustainability of the Urban Water Cycle
Leeuwen, Cornelis; Frijns, Jos; Wezel, Annemarie; Ven, Frans - In: Water Resources Management 26 (2012) 8, pp. 2177-2197
optimizing the role of civil society. Although there are approaches for assessing the sustainability of countries and cities …, there is no dedicated framework for the assessment of the sustainability of urban water management. We have therefore …
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Development of an Algorithm for Sustainability Based Assessment of Reservoir Life Cycle Cost Using Fuzzy Theory
Hamid Vahdat–Aboueshagh; Nazif, Sara; Shahghasemi, Ebrahim - In: Water Resources Management 28 (2014) 15, pp. 5389-5409
<Para ID="Par1">Sustainability assessment can be used as a basic managerial analysis to evaluate the capability of …’ performance and sustainability can lead to additional costs of system operation. In this study a novel framework is proposed for … assessing economic life cycle costs of dams considering system’s performance from sustainability aspect. For convenience, the …
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Factors Affecting Water Utility Companies’ Decision to Promote the Reduction of Household Water Consumption
Romano, Giulia; Salvati, Nicola; Guerrini, Andrea - In: Water Resources Management 28 (2014) 15, pp. 5491-5505
provides some interesting insights into the type of companies most sensitive to water sustainability issues, providing …
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Determination of the Optimal Location for Developments to Minimize Detention Requirements
Chill, Jonathon; Mays, Larry - In: Water Resources Management 27 (2013) 15, pp. 5089-5100
A methodology is presented to determine the optimal locations to place various types of developments in a watershed to reduce the changes in flow rates and volume from natural to developed conditions. An optimization model is developed which incorporates the hydrology (based upon rational method...
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Multi-criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) for Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) in the Lake Poopo Basin, Bolivia
Calizaya, Andrés; Meixner, Oliver; Bengtsson, Lars; … - In: Water Resources Management 24 (2010) 10, pp. 2267-2289
season, leading to low water quality, a high water-poverty index and low values of the watershed sustainability index …
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Comprehensive Assessment of Water Resources in the United Arab Emirates (UAE)
Murad, Ahmed; Nuaimi, Hind; Hammadi, Muna - In: Water Resources Management 21 (2007) 9, pp. 1449-1463
Lack of sufficient quantities of water in the UAE is one of the major problems facing sustainable development. The arid climate of the country plays a significant role in the water resources availability. Rainfall, which is a main source of recharge for different water resources, such as surface...
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A Modeling System for the Evaluation of Water Resources Management Strategies in Thessaly, Greece
Loukas, A.; Mylopoulos, N.; Vasiliades, L. - In: Water Resources Management 21 (2007) 10, pp. 1673-1702
A modeling system was developed to evaluate the sustainability of water resources management strategies in the two …
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Modeling Multisource Multiuser Water Resources Allocation
Han, Yan; Xu, Shi-guo; Xu, Xiang-zhou - In: Water Resources Management 22 (2008) 7, pp. 911-923
Water shortage emerges and restricts the urban construction and the socio-economy development due to the rapid expansion of the cities throughout the world. Recently treated wastewater reuse, including rainwater collection and utilization, and seawater desalination, etc., has been put in...
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Identification of Spatial Ranking of Hydrological Vulnerability Using Multi-Criteria Decision Making Techniques: Case Study of Korea
Chung, Eun-Sung; Lee, Kil - In: Water Resources Management 23 (2009) 12, pp. 2395-2416
-criteria decision making (MCDM) techniques. All criteria are selected on the basis of a sustainability evaluation concept (pressure …
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