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Enhancing resilience in urban water systems for future cities

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posted on 2023-09-01, 14:12 authored by Seith N. Mugume, Kegong Diao, Maryam Astaraie-Imani, Guangtao Fu, Raziyeh Farmani, David Butler
In future cities, urban water systems (UWSs) should be designed not only for safe provision of services but should also be resilient to emerging or unexpected threats that lead to catastrophic system failure impacts and consequences. Resilience can potentially be built into UWSs by implementing a range of strategies, for example by embedding redundancy and flexibility in system design, or by rehabilitation to increase their ability to maintain acceptable customer service levels during unexpected system failures. In this work, a new resilience analysis is carried out to investigate the performance of a water distribution system (WDS) and an urban drainage system (UDS) during pipe failure scenarios. Using simplified synthetic networks, the effect of implementing adaptation (resilient design) strategies on minimising the loss of system functionality and cost of UWSs is investigated. Study results for the WDS case study show that the design strategy in which flexibility is enhanced ensures that all customers are served during single pipe failure scenarios. The results of the UDS case study indicate that the design strategy incorporating upstream distributed storage tanks minimises flood volume and mean duration of nodal flooding by 50.1% and 46.7%, respectively, even when system functionality is significantly degraded. When costs associated with failure are considered, resilient design strategies could prove to be more cost-effective over the design life of UWSs.

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Refereed

  • Yes

Volume

15

Issue number

6

Page range

1343-1352

Publication title

Water Science & Technology: Water Supply

ISSN

1606-9749

Publisher

IWA Publishing

File version

  • Published version

Language

  • eng

Legacy posted date

2017-10-19

Legacy creation date

2017-10-18

Legacy Faculty/School/Department

ARCHIVED Faculty of Science & Technology (until September 2018)

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