Case study: Application of multicriteria decision making to urban water supply

Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management

Volumn 131, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 326-335

  Abrishamchi, Ahmad ^a   Ebrahimian, Ali ^b   Tajrishi, Massoud ^a   Mariño, Miguel A ^c  

^a SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b Tehran Engineering and Technical Consulting Organization   (Iran)

^c University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Case reports; Decision making; Iran; Sensitivity analysis; Urban areas; Water management; Water supply

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; PROBLEM SOLVING; URBAN PLANNING; WATER QUALITY;

MULTICRITERIA DECISION MAKING; WATER DEMANDS; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER PROBLEMS;

WATER SUPPLY;

URBAN AREA; WATER SUPPLY;

URBAN AREA; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 22944472380     PISSN: 07339496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9496(2005)131:4(326)     Document Type: Article

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