Operational tools for decision support in leakage control

Water Practice and Technology

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Mutikanga, H E ^a,b,d   Vairavamoorthy, K ^a,b,c   Sharma, S K ^a   Akita, C S ^a  

^a UNESCO IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^d National Water and Sewerage Corporation   (Uganda)

Author keywords

Decision Support; Developing Countries; Leakage Control; Pressure Management; Water Distribution Network

Indexed keywords

CUSTOMER LEVEL; DECISION SUPPORT TOOLS; DECISION SUPPORTS; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; ENGINEERING TOOLS; FINANCIAL BENEFITS; HIGH WATER; LEAKAGE CONTROL; MANAGEMENT DECISION-MAKING; NETWORK HYDRAULICS; OPERATIONAL TOOLS; PRESSURE MANAGEMENT; WATER DISTRIBUTION NETWORK; WATER UTILITY;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; EQUIPMENT; HYDRAULIC MODELS; HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES; HYDRAULIC TOOLS; NETWORK MANAGEMENT; WATER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS; WATER SUPPLY;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 80054046687     PISSN: 1751231X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wpt.2011.057     Document Type: Article

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