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District Metered Areas Design Under Different Decision Makers’ Options: Cost Analysis

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datacite.subject.fosEngenharia e Tecnologia::Engenharia Civil
datacite.subject.sdg03:Saúde de Qualidade
datacite.subject.sdg07:Energias Renováveis e Acessíveis
datacite.subject.sdg11:Cidades e Comunidades Sustentáveis
dc.contributor.authorGomes, Ricardo
dc.contributor.authorMarques, Alfeu S. A.
dc.contributor.authorSousa, Joaquim
dc.date.accessioned2026-03-06T12:39:33Z
dc.date.available2026-03-06T12:39:33Z
dc.date.issued2013-09-03
dc.description.abstractWater loss is a big challenge for water supply companies worldwide, and the Water Network Partitioning (WNP) is an excellent tool for water loss management–particularly in the current difficult economic and financial conditions. WNP is a recent research line and consists in dividing the water distribution network into smaller zones called District Metered Areas (DMAs) with one (or more, in exceptional cases) supply point, to reduce the network complexity and/or allow pressure management. Since there are several possible future scenarios, such as the water demand and/or the infrastructure degradation forecasts, which may have different impacts on the hydraulic behaviour, in this paper a computational application, based on an optimization model, is proposed to achieve a compromise between robustness required for the DMAs design (using a baseline scenario) and different decision makers’ options (using other scenarios with a lower “probability” of occurrence), to reduce the total cost. The objective function reflects the minimization of the squared deviations between the total cost of the DMAs design and the minimum cost for each scenario forecasted for the project plan, multiplied by the weight or “probability” of occurrence for each of the scenarios. The performance of the computational application is illustrated with a case study, and the results are encouraging.eng
dc.identifier.citationGomes, R., Marques, A.S.A. & Sousa, J. District Metered Areas Design Under Different Decision Makers’ Options: Cost Analysis. Water Resour Manage 27, 4527–4543 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11269-013-0424-y
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s11269-013-0424-y
dc.identifier.issn0920-4741
dc.identifier.issn1573-1650
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.8/15797
dc.language.isoeng
dc.peerreviewedyes
dc.publisherSpringer Publishing Company
dc.relation.hasversionhttps://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11269-013-0424-y
dc.relation.ispartofWater Resources Management
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectCost analysis
dc.subjectDistrict Metered Areas(DMAs)
dc.subjectWater distribution network
dc.subjectWater loss management
dc.titleDistrict Metered Areas Design Under Different Decision Makers’ Options: Cost Analysiseng
dc.typejournal article
dspace.entity.typePublication
oaire.citation.endPage4543
oaire.citation.issue13
oaire.citation.startPage4527
oaire.citation.titleWater Resources Management
oaire.citation.volume27
oaire.versionhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85
person.familyNameJesus Gomes
person.givenNameRicardo
person.identifierhttps://scholar.google.pt/citations?user=8zS8MIUAAAAJ&hl=pt-PT
person.identifier.ciencia-id5C1B-DC9B-FAEB
person.identifier.orcid0000-0002-6375-7014
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