Water SupplyPub Date : 2024-03-26DOI: 10.2166/ws.2024.061
Martin Oberascher, Claudia Maussner, Dietmar Truppe, Eva Eggeling, R. Sitzenfrei
{"title":"Future projection of water resources based on digitalisation and open data in a water-rich region: a case study of the city of Klagenfurt","authors":"Martin Oberascher, Claudia Maussner, Dietmar Truppe, Eva Eggeling, R. Sitzenfrei","doi":"10.2166/ws.2024.061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2166/ws.2024.061","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Implementation of different strategies on the demand and supply side to deal with potential water scarcity is based on a comparison of future water demand and availability of water resources based on different scenarios of climate change and population growth. Especially, the Alpine region is characterised by many small and medium water supply systems (WSSs) having neither human resources nor time for advanced planning, requiring simple methods for estimating future development. Therefore, the aim of this work is to provide future projections of water demand, resource availability, and drinking water quality for an Alpine area based on simple approaches with minimal data requirements. As the results of the case study show, linear and polynomial regression with precipitation and temperature data can illustrate the temporal variation of system input and drinking water temperature with sufficient accuracy and is suitable for an estimation of future development. The groundwater modelling, however, requires the consideration of a non-linear term depending on the depth to obtain reasonable results. Due to the usage of open-access data and the easy approaches developed and applied, a good transferability to other case studies is expected which can provide stakeholders a first assessment of the future need for action.","PeriodicalId":23725,"journal":{"name":"Water Supply","volume":"110 25","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140380736","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Water SupplyPub Date : 2024-03-22DOI: 10.2166/ws.2024.051
Lianfeng Zhang
{"title":"The method to measure the UV emittance of low-pressure-lamps: a commentary on","authors":"Lianfeng Zhang","doi":"10.2166/ws.2024.051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2166/ws.2024.051","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 In the paper by Schmalwieser and colleagues, the irradiance on the wall of a cylindrical UV reactor for water disinfection was measured. This is a useful way to measure/evaluate such UV devices. However, this measurement is not a solution for measuring the UV emittance of low-pressure-lamps. In fact, throughout the paper, the method and the emittance measurements that the title claimed were not really provided. The title of the paper claiming to be a ‘standardized method to measure the longitudinal UV emittance’ is misleading.","PeriodicalId":23725,"journal":{"name":"Water Supply","volume":" 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140213114","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Public opinion risk perception of decision makers’ in transboundary watershed emergency water supply","authors":"Chunbao Wang, Haiwei Zhou, Liming Liu, Yukuo Zhang","doi":"10.2166/ws.2024.056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2166/ws.2024.056","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 In recent years, the number of public opinion risks related to sudden transboundary drought events has continued to increase. Research on the perception of public opinion risks has become an indispensable and increasingly important part of emergency management research in transboundary watersheds. Based on relevant literature and interview materials, an exploratory theoretical construction was conducted using the grounded theory research method. The research results indicate that four main categories of public opinion risks, namely, political, economic, ecological and environmental, and socio-cultural, have a significant impact on the perception of public opinion risks among decision-makers in transboundary watershed emergency water supply. The formation mechanisms of decision-makers’ perception of public opinion risks vary in each of these four categories. This research not only enriches the relevant research on the influencing factors of decision-makers’ perception of public opinion risks in theory but also provides decision-making reference and guidance for transboundary watershed water resource management in practice.","PeriodicalId":23725,"journal":{"name":"Water Supply","volume":"7 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140222661","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Water SupplyPub Date : 2024-03-21DOI: 10.2166/ws.2024.058
Junlin Ren, Bie Xiao, Xinyue Li, Ziqian Peng
{"title":"Analysis of the factors influencing willingness to Pay and payout level for watershed Eco-compensation of the Huangbai river basin","authors":"Junlin Ren, Bie Xiao, Xinyue Li, Ziqian Peng","doi":"10.2166/ws.2024.058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2166/ws.2024.058","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Watershed Ecological Compensation (WEC), an essential institutional framework, is for watershed ecological protection and management in China. The governments play a leading role but watershed residents who are the direct stakeholders are not given enough attention in the legislation and practice of WEC in most river basins. Thereupon, it is necessary to study the resident's willingness to pay (WTP) and willingness to accept (WTA). Based on the field survey data of the Huangbai River Basin, the contingent valuation method, the Probit and Tobit models were used to explore the WTP and its influencing factors of residents in the basin. Additionally, parametric estimation methods were employed to estimate the payout level and willingness to accept (WTA) of residents in watersheds. Results show that 88.84% of the respondents intended to pay for WEC with an average price of 142.24 CNY per year. The crucial factors influencing WTP were environmental awareness, ecological compensation cognition and political outlook. In addition, attention to ecology and satisfaction with water quality are significantly related to their payment levels. Accordingly, the policy makers should balance WTP and basin economic level and explore the implementation of a comprehensive ecological compensation strategy.","PeriodicalId":23725,"journal":{"name":"Water Supply","volume":" 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140221280","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Water SupplyPub Date : 2024-03-20DOI: 10.2166/ws.2024.057
Mariana Barcia, Alexandra Sixto, Maria Pia Cerdeiras
{"title":"Prediction of microbiological non-compliances using a Boosted Regression Trees model: application on the drinking water distribution system of a whole country","authors":"Mariana Barcia, Alexandra Sixto, Maria Pia Cerdeiras","doi":"10.2166/ws.2024.057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2166/ws.2024.057","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Universal access to safe drinking water is a fundamental human right and a requirement for a healthy life. Therefore, monitoring the quality of the supplied water is of utmost importance. To achieve this goal, there is a need to develop tools that support monitoring activities and improve efficiency. Forecasting models enable the prediction of pollution levels and facilitate the implementation of action plans. In this study, the Boosted Regression Trees method was employed to investigate the variables influencing water quality failures (WQFs) due to microbial contamination at the delivery point. The dataset used was obtained from localities across the country's distribution systems. The variables under consideration included physicochemical parameters such as pH, turbidity (NTU), and free chlorine (mg L−1), along with contextual parameters like the year, season, geographic location, and locality population. Indicators of microbial contamination assessed were the presence of total coliforms, Escherichia coli, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. The most significant variables were geographic location, free chlorine content, and the population of the locality. The model achieved an AUC value of 0.77 and provided adequate predictions in the conducted tests. It enables the exploration of key factors affecting microbiological water quality, allowing for informed action to reduce associated risks.","PeriodicalId":23725,"journal":{"name":"Water Supply","volume":"29 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140226234","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Water SupplyPub Date : 2024-03-19DOI: 10.2166/ws.2024.055
A. Zanfei, Andrea Lombardi, Alberto De Luca, Andrea Menapace
{"title":"AI-Forecast: an innovative and practical tool for short-term water demand forecasting","authors":"A. Zanfei, Andrea Lombardi, Alberto De Luca, Andrea Menapace","doi":"10.2166/ws.2024.055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2166/ws.2024.055","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Water management is a major contemporary and future challenge. In an increasing water demand scenario related to climate change, a water distribution system must ensure equal access to water for all users. In this context, a reliable short-term water demand forecasting system is crucial for reliable water management. However, despite the abundance of studies in the scientific literature, few examples highlight complete tools for providing such models to real water utilities and water managers. This study presents AI-Forecast, an innovative tool developed to predict water demand with state-of-art models. Such tool is based on the data-driven logic, and it is designed to provide a complete data-driven chain that starts from the data and arrives to the short-term water demand prediction. AI-Forecast can import data, properly manage them, and assess tasks like outlier detection and missing data imputation. Eventually, it can implement state-of-the-art forecasting models and provide the forecasts. The prediction is shown through an intuitive web interface, which is designed to highlight the major information related to the prediction accuracy. Although this tool does not provide a new prediction algorithm, it proposes a complete data-driven chain that is practically designed to take such models in practice to real water utilities.","PeriodicalId":23725,"journal":{"name":"Water Supply","volume":"8 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140230623","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Water SupplyPub Date : 2024-03-18DOI: 10.2166/ws.2024.054
Tapasi Mohanty, Himanshu Sekhar Rout
{"title":"Consumers’ perception of piped water supply and their willingness to pay for improved water supply: evidence from an Eastern Indian state","authors":"Tapasi Mohanty, Himanshu Sekhar Rout","doi":"10.2166/ws.2024.054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2166/ws.2024.054","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 The objectives of the study are to analyse the perception of consumers on piped water supply, the consumers’ willingness to pay for improved water supply, and the factors that affect it. The sample unit is the consumer household of the public health divisions. The sample size is 181. A multistage random sampling procedure was adopted to choose the sample household. Descriptive statistics and structural equation models are used to analyse the data. This study found that consumer satisfaction is influenced by water supply quantity, pressure, timing, and visual aspects. The main factors causing interruptions include pipeline breakage, cyclone impact, summer water depletion, construction work, motor damage, and reservoir cleaning. Households are not well-informed about advance payment, its benefits, and the proper procedure for obtaining a receipt. Household income, education, satisfaction with water quality, the period of the service association, supply water price, and sufficiency of water during summer directly affect consumers’ willingness to pay. Discontent with appearance and taste affects quality dissatisfaction and indirectly willingness to pay.","PeriodicalId":23725,"journal":{"name":"Water Supply","volume":"217 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140233990","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Water SupplyPub Date : 2024-03-18DOI: 10.2166/ws.2024.053
M. Aldoury, M. T. Hammood
{"title":"Assessment of many WQI models and development of new WQI model","authors":"M. Aldoury, M. T. Hammood","doi":"10.2166/ws.2024.053","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2166/ws.2024.053","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 The water quality index (WQI) is widely used to assess water quality. In all WQI models, selected parameter data are transformed into many steps to a single number. Since the work of Horton (1965), a lot of WQI models have been developed. However, all models suffer from many problems such as they are introduced based on site-specific standards for a particular region and give eclipsing, dichotomous, ambiguity, rigidity, and uncertainty problems. In the present work, an effort is made to test many of the applicable WQI models using many logical conditions. The results showed that no one of the tested models satisfies these conditions. The aim of the present work is to develop a WQI model that can be used universally (regardless of the standard used) and covers different uses of water (drinking, recreational, irrigation, or industrial). Moreover, it can overcome the previously mentioned problem. The suggested new WQI model developed in this work succeeded in achieving these two goals.","PeriodicalId":23725,"journal":{"name":"Water Supply","volume":"82 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140232281","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Water SupplyPub Date : 2024-03-16DOI: 10.2166/ws.2024.052
Ramin Salmasi, Azita Behbahaninia, F. Salmasi, J. Abraham
{"title":"Flood-spreading effects on the chemical properties of the soil: a case study of the Tasuj station, Iran","authors":"Ramin Salmasi, Azita Behbahaninia, F. Salmasi, J. Abraham","doi":"10.2166/ws.2024.052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2166/ws.2024.052","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The objective of this paper is to determine whether the flood-spreading system at the Tasuj station in east Azerbaijan, Iran, has caused inappropriate chemical alterations to the properties of the soil. One question is whether the flood-spreading system was constructed at an inappropriate location leading to unintentional consequences. Composite soil samples were taken from three flooded areas, from three grids in each flooding area, and from two depths. Chemical characteristics of the soil including electrical conductivity, pH, concentrations of bicarbonate, chloride, sodium, calcium, and magnesium ions, and the sodium adsorption ratio in the flooded areas were measured. Because of calcareous, gypsum, shale, and marl formations in the first flooded area, dissolution of solutes of these formations increased the concentration of ions in the runoff (especially sodium and chlorine, to 19.50 and 21.90 mmol (charge) L−1, respectively). These high ion concentrations caused the electrical conductivity of the runoff to increase significantly (up to 2.03 dS/m) compared to the other areas. High amounts of lime in the soil caused increasing buffering capacity of the area soil, as a consequence the flood-spreading did not cause significant changes to the soil pH and showed a difference of only 0.3–0.2 in the first flooded area compared to other areas.","PeriodicalId":23725,"journal":{"name":"Water Supply","volume":"86 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140236400","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Water SupplyPub Date : 2024-03-15DOI: 10.2166/ws.2024.049
R. Dhumal, P. Sadgir
{"title":"Chloride ion sequestration by vetiver root biosorption: isotherm, kinetic, and thermodynamic analyses and ANN prediction","authors":"R. Dhumal, P. Sadgir","doi":"10.2166/ws.2024.049","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2166/ws.2024.049","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 The present research investigates the potential of activated vetiver root powder as a bioadsorbent for removing chloride ions from saline aqueous environments, especially relevant for addressing agricultural water scarcity. Factors such as pH, biomass dosage, contact duration, and initial salt ion concentration were examined. Thermodynamic analysis provided insights into the adsorption process, demonstrating the feasibility, non-spontaneous behavior, and exothermic nature of chloride ion adsorption onto activated vetiver root powder. The batch adsorption of chlorides adhered to the Langmuir equation and a pseudo-second-order kinetic model, demonstrating a monolayer adsorption capacity of 17.58 mg/g for activated vetiver powder. An artificial neural network (ANN) was used to develop a predictive model for estimating the percentage removal of chloride ions. The values of R2 and mean squared error were used to determine the predictive performance of the ANN. In the near term, prospective commercial uses of activated vetiver powder merit further investigation through in-depth research using real wastewater containing salinity-inducing ion.","PeriodicalId":23725,"journal":{"name":"Water Supply","volume":"61 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140238361","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}