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systems (WDSs). These sustainability indices are based upon performance criteria including reliability, resiliency, and … vulnerability. Pressure and water age are determined for a WDS as a function of operation time using the U.S. Environmental … Protection Agency EPANET model. The values of pressure and water age are used to determine reliability, resiliency, and …
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Based on a detailed Monte-Carlo simulation, the effects of hedging parameters namely, starting water availability (SWA), ending water availability (EWA) and hedging factor (HF) on reservoir storage performance indicators have been investigated within the storage-yield plane of over-year...
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applies five risk indices: reliability, resiliency, vulnerability, drought risk index (DRI) and drought damage index (DDI …
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with high reliability, moderate resiliency and low vulnerability. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010 … Bangladesh (BFA). This evaluation is carried out using three risk-based performance indicators: reliability, resiliency and … vulnerability. The vulnerability indicator has been redefined incorporating the aspect of a supply failure. The analysis includes …
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integrated index for assessment of vulnerability of this natural phenomenon. The aim of this paper is presenting an integrated … index for assessment of vulnerability to drought using multiple factors which includes hydrological, meteorological, land …
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aquifer to the sustainable rate (i.e., safe yield). Groundwater vulnerability mapping and delineation of groundwater … resources in Jordan and their major issues. It attempts to discuss the groundwater vulnerability and protection strategy and the …
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the potential of ground water for pollution. For this purpose intrinsic vulnerability was assessed using SINTACS model … vulnerability category. To validate the model results, a sensitivity analysis has been carried out to assess the influence of each … of SINTACS parameters on the obtained vulnerability values. It was found that the soil overburden attenuation capacity …
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This paper presents a spatial-temporal groundwater vulnerability assessment, based on a coupled remote sensing and GIS … vulnerability assessment in fresh water systems. The transboundary watershed of the Águeda River was used as an experimental case … study where the DRASTIC and DRASTIC pesticide indices and the Susceptibility Index (SI) were used for vulnerability …
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The main objective of this paper is to introduce the proposed theory of vulnerability of water pipe network (TVWPN) and …, in particular, its theoretical concepts. These concepts have a basis in the structural vulnerability theory (Agarwal et …
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method used to measure the vulnerability of a reservoir water supply that arises due to water scarcity in a dry season. Water … supply vulnerability is expected to increase due to climate change. The authors showed that the Gwangdong Reservoir Drought … vulnerability of water supplies. The authors assumed 48 future scenarios, consisting of a combination of 6 future inflow scenarios …
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