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Households’ willingness-to-pay for different strategies aimed at reducing water supply network dysfunctions. A French case-study Urban Water J. (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Bénédicte Rulleau, Margaux Sinceux
Using an original contingent valuation, this study compares the Willingness-To-Pay (WTP) of households for three water pipes renewal programs focused respectively on water quality, reducing leaks i...
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Air entrapment modelling in water supply networks during pipe filling events Urban Water J. (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 João Paulo Ferreira, David Ferràs, Dídia I.C. Covas, Zoran Kapelan
Intermittent water supply systems are prone to air entrapments during the pipe filling phase. This work aims to analyse and discuss the numerical results obtained by applying the recently developed...
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Optimal design of series of pipes in sewer systems including pumping stations for flat terrains Urban Water J. (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Juan Saldarriaga, Juana Herrán, Ana Acevedo, Pedro L. Iglesias-Rey
This paper proposes a methodology for the optimal design of series of sewer pipes including pumping stations. It employs a Shortest Path Algorithm to select the optimal combination of pipe diameter...
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Metaheuristic algorithms for optimization of reservoir operations on Ravishankar Sagar reservoir Urban Water J. (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Rajan Dabral, Har Amrit Singh Sandhu, Claudia Cherubini
Reservoir operations involve determining the quantity of water to be released or stored from the reservoir at any given time, based on the reservoir’s current condition. This research presents opti...
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Introduction of a modular passive rainwater harvest system for existing buildings Urban Water J. (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-17 U. Unver, N. Kanmaz, A. M. Papadopoulos, P. Hajek
In urban areas facing water stress, rainwater harvesting is essential. This paper proposes a passive rainwater harvesting system as a viable alternative for ensuring a clean water supply. The study...
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Microbial contamination in surface water in urban lakes of Hanoi city, Vietnam Urban Water J. (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-03 Nhu Da Le, Thi Thu Ha Hoang, Thi Mai Huong Nguyen, Emma Rochelle-Newall, Thi Xuan Binh Phung, Thi Minh Hanh Pham, Thi Thuy Duong, Thi Mai Huong Pham, Tien Dat Nguyen, Thi Phuong Quynh Le
Urbanisation and demographic growth are putting pressure on surface water quality in many large cities. Microbial water quality, as determined by the presence of fecal indicator bacteria (FIB) was ...
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New strategies in wastewater treatment plants to evaluate the achievement of sustainable development goals: a case study Urban Water J. (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-02 Camila Garcia, Modesto Pérez-Sánchez, Helena M. Ramos, P. Amparo López-Jiménez, Francisco-Javier Sánchez-Romero
Water treatment plant managers have to control quality and quantity indicators to regenerate water to be used in irrigation or other municipal services. The need to improve the performance indicato...
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A study on the economic loss estimation of industrial wastewater pollution discharges in the Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration Urban Water J. (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Peng Wang, Qianqian Du, Muhammad Fahad Sardar, Qinni Ye, Tao Sun
This study focuses on the industrial wastewater discharge of 27 cities in the Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration. It selects five water pollutant indicators from industrial wastewater discharg...
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Developing data-driven learning models to predict urban stormwater runoff volume Urban Water J. (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Rachel Wood-Ponce, Ghada Diab, Zeyu Liu, Ryan Blanchette, Jon Hathaway, Anahita Khojandi
The Storm Water Management Model (SWMM) is a hydrological model for simulating and predicting runoff. Although powerful, SWMM can be computationally demanding. Therefore, we develop machine learnin...
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A taxonomy of demand management strategies for sustainable water consumption in urban households Urban Water J. (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Cristobal Rodriguez-Montoya
Excessive urban household water usage is a pressing global issue faced by many cities. This study aims to develop a concise yet encompassing taxonomy of water demand management strategies, offering...
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Understanding residential water demand: insights from a survey in a Mediterranean city Urban Water J. (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 S. Costa, I. Meireles, V. Sousa
In order to formulate targeted water demand management policies, policymakers need to know how water is consumed in cities. However, domestic water consumption can be highly affected by diverse fac...
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A review of prediction models for E. coli in urban surface waters Urban Water J. (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 E. S. van der Meulen, A. Tertienko, A. N. Blauw, N. B. Sutton, F. H. M. van de Ven, H. H. M. Rijnaarts, P. R. van Oel
Urban surface water is increasingly used for contact recreation. Predicting Escherichia coli (E. coli) concentrations in these waters can support early warning of bathers and explain the dynamics o...
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A grey-box approach for the optimization of regulation structures used in urban-water conveyance systems Urban Water J. (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-11 Stratis Boucoyannis, Panagiotis Kossieris, Vasilis Bellos, Andreas Efstratiadis, Christos Makropoulos
This paper presents a holistic approach to address the challenges associated with deploying laboratory-derived hydraulic models in real operational conditions within Urban Water Systems (UWS). The ...
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A new index for reliability assessment of PATs in WDNs Urban Water J. (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-11 Mohammad Salkhordeh Haghighi, Ramin Amini, Behrooz Keshtegar
In water distribution networks (WDN) equipped with pump as turbines (PATs), in addition to water pressure problems, energy production by PATs is also necessary in abnormal conditions. Reliability i...
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Optimal distribution of green and grey infrastructures coupled with real time control of the sewer for combined sewer overflows control as an adaptation measure to climate change Urban Water J. (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-11 Marie-Ève Jean, Camille Morin, Juan Esteban Ossa Ossa, Sophie Duchesne, Geneviève Pelletier, Martin Pleau
Optimization of the spatial distribution of green infrastructures (GIs) was performed for a combined sewer system located in the Province of Quebec, Canada, using a simulation-optimization tool wit...
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New institutional theory perspective: water safety plan implementations in Thailand, Australia, Indonesia and Nepal Urban Water J. (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-11 Sasipha Tangworachai, Fang-Yi Lo
Water is essential for human life and is an increasingly scarce resource with global population increase and climate change. In recognition of access to water as a fundamental human right, the Worl...
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Maximum pressure of water column separation phenomenon applying the crow search algorithm Urban Water J. (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Sakineh Safari, Mehdi Azhdary Moghaddam, Abdul Hamid Bahrpima, Mohammad GivehChi
The water distribution network is one of the vital infrastructures for every city whose transient flow can disturb its performance. Among the transient flow regimes, water column separation can cau...
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Innovative Polygonal Trend Analysis (IPTA) in detecting the seasonal trend behavior of statistically downscaled precipitation for the Eastern Black Sea Basin of Turkey Urban Water J. (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Sinan Nacar, Murat Şan, Murat Kankal, Umut Okkan
This study compares projected and past seasonal precipitation trends in the Eastern Black Sea Basin, Turkey. Historical data from twelve stations representing the basin during 1981–2010 was used, w...
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Beyond awareness: the persuasion stage of decision-making explains urban residents’ compliance with landscape irrigation restrictions Urban Water J. (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-04 Laura A. Warner, Dharmendra Kalauni, John M. Diaz, Masoud Yazdanpanah, Sravani Pasula
Inadequate compliance with landscape irrigation restrictions poses a significant challenge for policymakers, environmental educators, and communicators working in urban water conservation as these ...
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Water quality assessment: a case study in the Tuticorin district of Tamil Nadu in South India Urban Water J. (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 G. Palaniselvan, P. Govindhan, D. Jayganesh, M. Dharmendra Kumar, R. Edison Chandraseelan
A hydro-geochemical study for water-quality assessment was conducted in the Tuticorin region of Tamil Nadu in southern India during the pre- and post-monsoon seasons of 2022 and the water samples a...
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Unsteady state municipal wastewater treatment: MBR response to organic and hydraulic shock-loads Urban Water J. (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-04 Behnam Karamnia, Fatemeh Pourasgharian Roudsari, Mohammad Reza Mehrnia
Ensuring the effluent quality despite fluctuations in influent flow rate and organic load to municipal wastewater treatment plants is critical. This study investigated the performance of a membrane...
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Land use in catchments of small streams and a hydrological urban heat island – a case study in Kielce city (Poland) Urban Water J. (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Tadeusz Ciupa, Roman Suligowski
This article presents the spatial and temporal value and dynamics of water temperature in small streams flowing through a city of 200,000 inhabitants. The analysis is based on stationary measuremen...
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Assessment of the impact of the rise in Lake Victoria water levels on urban flooding using a GIS-based spatial flood modelling approach Urban Water J. (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Seith N. Mugume, Greson Abasabyoona, Jorem Engwau, Jotham Sempewo, Bas Van de Sande, David Butler
During the period 2018–2021, Lake Victoria experienced a rapid rise in water levels that caused significant urban flooding consequences. However, there are no studies that have extensively investig...
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Public perceptions of rainwater harvesting (RWH): comparing users and non-users of RWH systems Urban Water J. (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Andrea M. Snelling, Jessica Lamond, Glyn Everett, Emily C O’Donnell, Sangaralingam Ahilan, Colin Thorne
The UK’s abundant municipal water supply has resulted in slow progress with the uptake of rainwater harvesting (RWH) systems within the home. Research has indicated that exploring public preference...
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SuDSbury: A serious game to support the adoption of sustainable drainage solutions Urban Water J. (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Jessica Nguyen, Aashna Mittal, Zoran Kapelan, Lisa Scholten
There is an urgent need for urban environments to be flood resilient due to increasing urbanization and climate change. This can be addressed by adopting sustainable drainage solutions (SuDS) in ho...
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The development of water security index in urbanized sub-Himalayan region: the study of Jammu city Urban Water J. (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Priyank Goswami, Gyana Ranjan Panda
As small and medium-sized cities of Himalayan and Sub-Himalayan India are rapidly urbanizing, certain structural issues like water management, climate change, the economic conditions, and poor urba...
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Assessment of the suitability of degradation models for the planning of CCTV inspections of sewer pipes Urban Water J. (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Fidae El Morer, Stefan Wittek, Andreas Rausch
The degradation of sewer pipes poses significant economical, environmental and health concerns. The maintenance of such assets requires structured plans to perform inspections, which are more effic...
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Predicting combined sewer overflow occurrences using rainfall depth and maximum intensity: a case study of Buffalo, USA Urban Water J. (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Soo Bin Chun, Zhenduo Zhu, Seyed Hamed Ghodsi
The occurrence of combined sewer overflow (CSO) is a pressing environmental issue in many cities. This study aims to predict CSO occurrence using rainfall event characteristics, including rainfall ...
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Potential for potable water savings using rainwater: a case study in a university building in Southern Brazil Urban Water J. (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Diego Antônio Custódio, Enedir Ghisi
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the potential for potable water savings and the financial viability of a rainwater harvesting system in a private university building located in southern B...
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Pipeline rehabilitation combined strategy for urban water systems Urban Water J. (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Ivar Annus, Nils Kändler, Marti Vaksmann, Katrin Kaur, Murel Truu, Margus Koor, Anatoli Vassiljev, Urmas Kütt
This paper presents a novel decision support framework for water utilities to automatically create yearly pipeline rehabilitation plans while considering multiple parameters, including pipeline phy...
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Efficiency of coagulation-flocculation and chlorination processes in the removal of endosulfan from water sources Urban Water J. (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Sezen Kucukcongar, Mustafa Yilmaz, Mehmet Turkyilmaz
In this study, the efficiency of conventional drinking water treatment processes (coagulation-flocculation and chlorination) for endosulfan removal and metabolite formation were investigated. Taguc...
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Sustainable land-use/Land-cover for stormwater management in three coastal watersheds in central Chile Urban Water J. (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Vladimir J. Alarcon, Juan Pablo Callejas Morales
Central Chile’s Concon City urbanization trend has severely affected local hydrological processes. This research hypothesizes that switching to sustainable land-use/land-cover (LULC) in three Conco...
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Assessing wet season water quality and health risks of Chaobai River: impacts of natural weathering and anthropogenic activities in a small urban watershed Urban Water J. (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Jie Ren, Guilin Han, Jinke Liu, Xi Gao
Small urban watersheds are susceptible to external influences, facing increased solute inputs during high-flow periods without sufficient dilution. This study determined the sources of major ions i...
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Optimisation of pumping and storage design through iterative hydraulic adjustment for minimum energy consumption Urban Water J. (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-14 Daniel Miller-Moran, Nemanja Trifunović, Maria Kennedy, Zoran Kapelan
Water distribution networks (WDNs) require large capital investment and ongoing operational costs, resulting in their optimisation being a highly researched field. Despite the benefits tanks bring ...
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Weather condition and Urban infrastructure for sustainable water supply protection from water meter frost: the case of Seoul Urban Water J. (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-14 Woosuk Choi
Wintertime water meter frost is a substantial threat to sustainable water supply. However, little is known about the social and environmental conditions associated with its occurrence. This study i...
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Water regulation ecosystem service facing cities growth. Evaluation of the effects of an urbanization scenario in an intermediate city, Argentina Urban Water J. (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-14 Anabella Montico, Paula Andrea Zapperi, Verónica Gil
This work aims to evaluate the water regulation ecosystem service in a peri-urban sector of Bahía Blanca, an intermediate city of Argentina. Variations in the level of provision are analyzed within...
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Improving the operational efficiency of water desalination systems through the integration of GIS-SCADA Urban Water J. (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-14 Noha Kamal, Mahmoud S. Ali
The overlap of different fields has made it easy to introduce a real development of new technologies. New techniques used in the water sector are introduced; the importance of integration with each...
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Application of pressure reducing and throttle control valves for optimal pressure management in water distribution networks Urban Water J. (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-14 Niuosha Hedaiaty Marzouny, Mohammadreza Jalili Ghazizadeh, Iman Moslehi, Mahdi Komeily
Advanced pressure control facilitates the smart management of water distribution networks (WDNs). In this study, an optimization-based method is proposed to develop a time-based schedule for pressu...
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Simulating equity in intermittent water supply using pressure sustaining valve in EPANET 2.2 Urban Water J. (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-14 Bini Kiron, Ram Kailash Prasad
Intermittent water supply (IWS) system refers to a system of water supply that delivers water to consumers for a fixed period (2 hours, 3 hours, 4 hours, etc.), which is less than 24 hours a day. L...
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Forecasting land use/cover changes and their influence on groundwater recharge in Chennai, India: Recommendations for sustainable urban development Urban Water J. (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-14 Puthan Veettil Razi Sadath, Lakshmanan Elango, Mariappan Rinisha Kartheeshwari, Lingaiah Keerthan
Land use/cover (LULC) changes significantly impact various environmental and social factors. In this study, we used a hybrid model that integrates Multi-Layer Perceptron-Markov Chain Analysis to fo...
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An automated approach to establish relationship between total and effective impervious area for urban Indian catchments Urban Water J. (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-14 Sovan Sankalp, Sanat Nalini Sahoo
Determination of total impervious area (TIA) or effective impervious area (EIA) is mandatory for hydrological modelling of water quantity and quality in urban areas. In this study, a multilayer dee...
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Urban water quality and COVID-19 during the lockdown periods: a case study of Ghaggar river, Punjab, India Urban Water J. (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Bhupendra Pratap Singh, Preeti Sai, Sakshi Rautela, Harison Masih, Dinesh Kuamr, Sudhir Kumar Singh, Jamson Masih
In late December 2019, a novel coronavirus, COVID −19 originated in Wuhan city of China, and significant improvement in not only the air quality but also the water quality. Therefore, the current s...
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A fuzzy group decision-making model for Water Distribution Network rehabilitation Urban Water J. (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Sattar Salehi, Marcele Elisa Fontana, Franz Tscheikner-Gratl, Manuel Herrera, Rehan Sadiq, Haroon R. Mian
Group Decision-Making (GDM), though could aid water companies in determining the Pipeline Rehabilitation Plans (PRPs) in any network size, can impose uncertainties on PRPs due to the different view...
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Treated domestic effluents for non-potable reuse: microbial risk assessment and economic viability Urban Water J. (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2023-12-27 Luciene da Silva Santos, Hugo Henrique de Simone Souza, Isaac Dennis Amoah, Maria Elisa Magri, Carlos Nobuyoshi Ide, Paula Loureiro Paulo
In this study, we applied quantitative microbial risk assessment and net present value methodologies to evaluate the economic viability and safety of wastewater treatment to produce water for reuse...
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Environmental contamination by heavy metals and assessing the impact of inhabitant microalgae in bioremediation: a case study of urban water of Yamuna River, India Urban Water J. (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2023-12-21 Dharmendra Kumar, Shivankar Agrawal, Dinabandhu Sahoo
A study assessed the presence of heavy metals (HMs) in Yamuna River water across different locations, seasons, and years, while also examining the efficacy of resident microalgae in HMs removal. Hi...
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Indicator-based resilience assessment of stormwater infrastructure network structure Urban Water J. (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2023-12-08 Nariman Valizadeh, Asaad Y. Shamseldin, Liam Wotherspoon, Andrea Raith
Stormwater management systems rely on an acyclic network structure, making the network more vulnerable to failure. Existing stormwater resilience studies have predominantly focused on hydraulic and...
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Rambling the headway in redemption of carbon-based nanomaterials for wastewater treatment Urban Water J. (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2023-12-08 Mamta Latwal, Shefali Arora
Rapid industrialization and technological advancement have increased the release of toxic effluents into the water thus decreasing clean water sources day by day.Engineered materials and membrane f...
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High removal efficiency of ammonium from aqueous solution by colloidal silver nanoparticles: batch adsorption Urban Water J. (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2023-12-04 Thi Mai Vu, Thi Minh Phuong Nguyen, Huu Tap Van, Van Hung Hoang, Luong Thị Quynh Nga, Le Phuong Hoang, Balasubramani Ravindran
This study aimed to use colloidal silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) for ammonium adsorption. Several factors were considered, including pH value, contact time, amount of adsorbent, and beginning ammoniu...
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Climate responsive design for road surface drainage systems: a case study for city of Bengaluru Urban Water J. (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2023-12-04 Shubham Kalore, V Yashas, Aman Bagrecha, J Nypunya, G L Sivakumar Babu
This study proposes a Geographic Information System (GIS) based algorithmic design of surface road drainage systems. The algorithm identifies a mechanistic workflow based on the rational method to ...
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Editorial: UWJ special edition on water management in developing countries Urban Water J. (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2023-11-23 Nilo Nascimento, Neil Armitage, Juan Pablo Rodriguez Sanches, Joao Paulo Leitao
Published in Urban Water Journal (Vol. 20, No. 10, 2023)
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Evaluation of a participatory citizen approach to monitor microbial water quality of self-supply in urban Indonesia Urban Water J. (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2023-11-24 Franziska Genter, Gita Lestari Putri, Rahayu Handayani, Cindy Priadi, Juliet Willetts, Tim Foster
A participatory citizen approach was established to monitor microbial water quality in household self-supply in Bekasi, Indonesia, and evaluated using a conceptual framework for context analysis, p...
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Studying the impact of monitoring strategy on disinfection performance evaluation with computational fluid dynamics Urban Water J. (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2023-11-24 J. Zhang, E. Wicklein
Disinfection is a critical process component of drinking water treatment to protect human health. The disinfection performance is highly dependent on the hydraulic efficiency of the disinfection co...
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Application of Integrated Urban Water Security Index (IUWSI) in Sana’a, Yemen (Case study) Urban Water J. (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2023-09-11 Yahia Alwathaf, W. A. Abdel Kawy, Alhasan Ahmed Aljawzi, O. A. Eweys
Water security is crucial to mitigate human-induced and climate change-related impacts on water resources. Previous studies on Sana'a's domestic water supply have raised safety, administration, and...
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Hazards of a flooding event in the city of Gdansk and possible forms of preventing the phenomenon – case study Urban Water J. (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Roman Cieśliński, Michał Szydłowski, Izabela Chlost, Patrycja Mikos-Studnicka
The main objective is to examine the urban flood hazard in the city of Gdansk and to determine the possibilities of preventing this phenomenon. Hydrological and hydraulic modeling was used for the ...
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Understanding cross-sectoral innovations for urban water management through the lens of organizational ambidexterity Urban Water J. (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2023-09-06 Eva Nieuwenhuis, Hans de Bruijn, Eefje Cuppen, Jeroen Langeveld
Urban water systems worldwide need integrated, cross-sectoral innovations to anticipate developments like climate change and population growth. Development and implementation of such innovations is...
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Deciphering and predict corrosion effect, influencing factors and microbial mechanism of sewer concrete corrosion based on extensive data analysis and machine learning Urban Water J. (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2023-09-06 Wenhao Wang, Xinxin Xu, Jingguo Cao, Ming Zeng, Wu Zhang
This study investigated the effect of environmental parameters on microbial-induced concrete corrosion during three corrosion stages. The corrosion effects and influencing factors in three corrosio...
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Leak detection method of liquid-filled pipeline based on VMD and SVM Urban Water J. (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2023-09-05 Si-Liang Zhao, Shao-Gang Liu, Bo Qiu, Zhou Hong, Dan Zhao, Li-Qiang Dong
In order to solve the problem of inconspicuous leakage signal characteristics under external noise interference, a leakage detection method based on the combination of variational modal decompositi...
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The role of graph-based methods in urban drainage networks (UDNs): review and directions for future Urban Water J. (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Shi Xiaoyu, Liu Zijing, Carlos Velazquez, Jia Haifeng
To mitigate urban drainage network pressures and seek sustainable solutions, novel tools like graph theory are presently being studied. This paper presents a systematic literature review of graph-b...
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The impact of wastewater-irrigated urban agriculture on microbial quality of drinking water at household level in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Urban Water J. (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Adnan Sirage Ali, Sirak Robele Gari, Michaela L Goodson, Claire L. Walsh, Bitew K. Dessie, Argaw Ambelu
Wastewater irrigation may reintroduce fecal pathogens to households and cause drinking water contamination. The aim of this study was to assess the effect of wastewater irrigation on the quality of...
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Validity of chlorine-wall reaction models for drinking water distribution systems Urban Water J. (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2023-08-31 Ian Fisher, George Kastl, Arumugam Sathasivan
Chlorine concentrations in water distribution systems are generally predicted by combined models of reactions in bulk water and at pipe walls. The structure of the widely used EPANET wall-reaction ...