The economics of groundwater replenishment for reliable urban water supply

Water (Switzerland)

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1662-1670

  Gao, Lei ^a   Connor, Jeffery D ^a   Dillon, Peter ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Drought; Economics; Groundwater; Markov switching model; Monte carlo; Risk assessment; Water allocation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AQUIFERS; DEPRECIATION; DESALINATION; DROUGHT; ECONOMICS; GROUNDWATER; HYDROGEOLOGY; MARKOV PROCESSES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; RELIABILITY; REPLENISHMENT (WATER RESOURCES); RISK ASSESSMENT; WATER SUPPLY;

ATTRACTIVE SOLUTIONS; DEPRECIATION RATES; MARKOV SWITCHING MODELS; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY OF SUPPLY; SEAWATER DESALINATION PLANTS; URBAN WATER SUPPLY; WATER ALLOCATIONS;

GROUNDWATER RESOURCES;

ALGORITHM; DESALINATION; ECONOMIC PLANNING; GROUNDWATER FLOW; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; URBAN PLANNING; WATER SUPPLY;

AUSTRALIA; PERTH [WESTERN AUSTRALIA]; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84902662582     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/w6061662     Document Type: Article

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