Download or read book Enhancing Partnerships in Regional Water Supply Planning written by Florida. Department of Environmental Protection and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Advancing Regional Water Supply Planning to Develop Robust Adaptive Equitable and Cooperatively Stable Infrastructure Investment and Management Pathways written by David Fredrick Secrest Gold and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Globally, urban water utilities are challenged by increasingly severe droughts and growing water demands. In the United States (US), these challenges are compounded by increasing costs of new supply development and aging infrastructure that strain the budgets of local water utilities. Regional cooperation can help utilities face these challenges by improving the efficiency of existing water sources and exploiting economies of scale to reduce the capital cost of new infrastructure investment. When implemented using state-aware rule systems that trigger drought mitigation and infrastructure investment decisions, cooperative strategies have been shown to generate infrastructure investment and management policies that maintain robust performance across a broad array of future conditions. But regional cooperation also generates new challenges for water supply planning. Effective strategies must equitably balance the potentially divergent interests of regional partners, as regional conflict can destabilize partnerships, exposing utilities to new risks. The presence of uncertainty in water supply planning problems heightens these risks by masking sources of potential inequity and instability. These challenges motivate the need for new decision support frameworks to develop robust, equitable, cooperatively stable infrastructure investment and management policies. This dissertation presents new research that advances the development of actionable regional water supply management strategies. The first study introduces methodology for exploring robustness conflicts and measuring the impact of implementation uncertainty on water cooperative water supply portfolios. Applied to a system of four water utilities, this study shows that negotiation strategies can discover regional policies that balance robustness across a group of cooperating partners, but also finds that these policies are highly vulnerable to implementation uncertainty. These results further illustrate how delineating safe operating spaces allows utilities to avoid these vulnerabilities. The second study looks more deeply into the multi-actor dynamics of cooperative water supply planning by introducing Regional Defection Analysis, a new methodology for analyzing the cooperative stability of regional supply partnerships and mapping the power relationships within these systems. Regional Defection Analysis extends the existing DU Pathway Framework. Results from a system of three water utilities highlight how seemingly robust infrastructure investment policies may be vulnerable to cooperative instability, reveal power dynamics between regional partners and suggest methods of reducing conflict within cooperative agreements. The third study builds on Regional Defection Analysis by contributing DU Pathway_ERAS, further developing the DU Pathways framework to explicitly focus on the development of equitable, robust, adaptive and cooperatively stable infrastructure investment and management pathways. When applied to a six-utility regional infrastructure investment planning problem, DU Pathway_ERAS (1) reveals how a priori assumptions about performance priorities can lead to unintended consequences for regional equity, (2) illustrates how regional partners can utilize cooperative power to improve regional robustness, and (3) highlights how system vulnerabilities evolves over time.
Download or read book Rural Water Supply in Africa written by Peter Harvey and published by WEDC, Loughborough University. This book was released on 2004 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is designed to assist those responsible for planning, implementing and supporting rural water supply prograames to increase sustainability.
Download or read book Guidelines for the Development of Small Scale Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Projects in East Africa written by Dennis B. Warner and published by Catholic Relief Services. This book was released on 2005-09-21 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This document constitutes general technical guidelines for the planning and implementation of small-scale water supply and sanitation activities in rural East Africa, which includes both projects funded under the USAID Title II (Food for Peace) Program and projects funded by other donors. It is intended to assist Catholic Relief Services and its partners in improving the effectiveness, environmental protection and long-term sustainability of water and sanitation activities in the rural, and often food-insecure, areas of East Africa.
Download or read book System Cooperation in Regional Water Supply Planning written by Jay R. Lund and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Safe Water From Every Tap written by Committee on Small Water Supply Systems and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1997-01-13 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Small communities violate federal requirements for safe drinking water as much as three times more often than cities. Yet these communities often cannot afford to improve their water service. Safe Water From Every Tap reviews the risks of violating drinking water standards and discusses options for improving water service in small communities. Included are detailed reviews of a wide range of technologies appropriate for treating drinking water in small communities. The book also presents a variety of institutional options for improving the management efficiency and financial stability of water systems.
Download or read book Responding to National Water Resources Challenges written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Water Supply Planning written by Michael R. Greenberg and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Supplement to the Regional Water Supply Planning Study written by Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Regional Water Supply Planning Study written by Turner Collie & Braden Inc and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Regional Water Supply Planning Study Red River and Bowie Counties written by Sulphur River Basin Authority and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Plan to Improve the Planning and Management of Water Supplies in East central Illinois written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Urban Water Supply Handbook written by Larry W Mays and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2002-05-14 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This state-of-the-art resource draws upon the accumulated wisdom of a carefully chosen team of internationally recognized experts selected for their extensive experience in the essential aspects of water supply systems. This industry “who’s who” covers everything from the historical perspectives of urban water supply to planning, safety and security – an especially timely and crucial issue, management, performance indicators, operation, pricing, maintenance, and public-private partnerships. The author includes informative case studies for valuable “real world” perspective.
Download or read book A Capacity Expansion Planning Method for a Regional Water Supply System written by Masahiro Nakashima and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Regional Water Supply and Distribution Planning Project written by Texas Water Development Board and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Water Pricing and Public Private Partnership written by Asit K. Biswas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-10 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no question that water pricing and public-private partnership can improve water management practices in the future. However, this concept is neither the cure-all many proponents argue, nor the disaster its opponents forecast. Providing a comprehensive and objective assessment of what does and does not work, where, why and under what circumstances, this informative collection assesses the social, economic, equity and institutional implications. This cohesive set of carefully selected essays, the result of The Third World Centre for Water Management and the Inter-American Development Bank's decision to objectively and critically assess the experiences in these areas, transcends the current dogmatic debate on these complex issues. Providing an in-depth analysis and assessment of the main issues and constraints of water pricing, private sector participation and their affect on water supply, the collection draws on illustrative case studies from Argentina, Brazil, the USA and Western European countries amongst others. This is a special issue of the Journal of Water Resource Development.
Download or read book Planning for the Expansion of Regional Water Supply Systems written by Fadi Antoun Karaa and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
