Urban expansion and its impact on water security: The case of the Paraíba do Sul River Basin, São Paulo, Brazil

AC da Encarnação Paiva, N Nascimento… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Increasing demand for water is one of the most challenging problems that human societies
face today and has encouraged new studies to examine water security and water …

Understanding household water-use behavior and consumption patterns during COVID-19 lockdown in Saudi Arabia

AI Almulhim, YA Aina - Water, 2022 - mdpi.com
With the COVID-19 lockdown impacting the livelihood of people globally, changes in
household behaviors, water consumption patterns, etc., have implications on sanitation …

Dealing with uncertainty in water distribution system models: A framework for real-time modeling and data assimilation

CJ Hutton, Z Kapelan… - Journal of Water …, 2014 - ascelibrary.org
Water distribution system (WDS) models may improve system control when applied using
real-time data, and in doing so, help meet consumer and regulatory demands. Such real …

Calibration of water demand multipliers in water distribution systems using genetic algorithms

NC Do, AR Simpson, JW Deuerlein… - Journal of water …, 2016 - ascelibrary.org
Hydraulic models have been widely used for design, analysis, and operation of water
distribution systems. As with all hydraulic models, water demands are one of the main …

Real-time dynamic hydraulic model for potable water loss reduction

AM Abu-Mahfouz, Y Hamam, PR Page, K Djouani… - Procedia …, 2016 - Elsevier
South Africa is a water scarce country with limited water resources and steadily growing
water demand. Unacceptably high water losses and non-revenue water threaten our water …

Parameter estimation of seasonal ARIMA models for water demand forecasting using the Harmony Search Algorithm

PJ Oliveira, JL Steffen, P Cheung - Procedia Engineering, 2017 - Elsevier
Accurate short-term water demand forecasts are imperative for the decision making process
in water management. It can be applied in the design, future studies, and for possible quality …

Real‐time in‐network distribution system monitoring to improve operational efficiency

M Allen, A Prels, M Lqbal… - Journal‐American …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
This article details the design, implementation, and deployment of the Wireless Water
Sentinel project in Singapore, an integrated, end‐to‐end system featuring node‐level …

Maintaining the long-term accuracy of water distribution models with data assimilation methods: A comparative study

X Zhou, S Guo, K **n, W Xu, T Tao, H Yan - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
The upgrading of water supply services is calling for more accurate and adaptive numerical
models to give insight into actual water distribution systems (WDSs), which underlines the …

Tailoring seasonal time series models to forecast short-term water demand

E Arandia, A Ba, B Eck, S McKenna - Journal of Water Resources …, 2016 - ascelibrary.org
This paper presents a methodology to forecast short-term water demands either offline or
online by combining seasonal autoregressive integrated moving average (SARIMA) models …

Efficient hydraulic state estimation technique using reduced models of urban water networks

A Preis, AJ Whittle, A Ostfeld… - Journal of Water …, 2011 - ascelibrary.org
This paper describes and demonstrates an efficient method for online hydraulic state
estimation in urban water networks. The proposed method employs an online predictor …