A new set of water losses-related performance indicators focused on areas facing water scarcivty conditions

Desalination and Water Treatment

Volumn 51, Issue 13-15, 2013, Pages 2994-3010

  Kanakoudis, V ^a   Tsitsifli, S ^a   Samaras, P ^b   Zouboulis, A ^c   Banovec, P ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^b ALEXANDER TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Decision support system; Nonrevenue water; Performance indicators; Water supply systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875825092     PISSN: 19443994     EISSN: 19443986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19443994.2012.748448     Document Type: Article

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