Title
Integrated framework for assessing urban water supply security of systems with non-traditional sources under climate change
Abstract
essing water supply security for urban water supply system (UWSS) planning is now more challenging with the inclusion of non-traditional sources, which increases simulation complexity, and the need to account for climate change impacts, which increases uncertainty. This paper addresses this by developing an integrated framework for assessing the security of UWSSs with non-traditional sources under climate change. The framework is applied to a case study based on the southern Adelaide UWSS. The case study objectives include minimizing cost and maximizing supply security, with the latter assessed using reliability, maximum failure duration, maximum vulnerability, and robustness. Robustness represents the performance of the UWSS across plausible future scenarios, comprising of realizations of climate change and consumer demand. Trade-offs exist between cost and supply security for solutions that use desalination and harvested stormwater to augment water supply; however, use of rainwater tanks is undesirable, as they are an expensive source. An integrated framework for planning an urban water supply system is proposed.Challenges of including non-traditional sources under climate change are documented.Desalination, stormwater and rainwater are augmentation options for a case study.Rainwater is an expensive augmentation option for little supply security gain.Reducing per capita consumption may increase robustness to future uncertainties.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1016/j.envsoft.2014.06.018
Environmental Modelling & Software
Keywords
Field
DocType
risk-based performance,non-traditional water sources,climate change impacts,integrated assessment,urban water supply planning,urban stormwater harvesting
Environmental resource management,Climate change,Computer science,Hydrology,Rainwater harvesting,Stormwater,Robustness (computer science),Desalination,Water supply,Vulnerability
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
60
C
1364-8152
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.44
8
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Fiona L. Paton191.13
Graeme C. Dandy244147.01
Holger R. Maier373872.97