Water Supply and Distribution Systems
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Water Supply and Distribution Systems, Second edition is a comprehensive introduction to the topic of how water is delivered to homes and businesses throughout the world. It covers fundamental concepts and exploring the latest ideas of good practice. Water supply and distribution systems are a key element of essential urban infrastructure. Water utilities worldwide are embarking on a process of ‘digitalisation’, which promises to bring benefits to the industry, but this is fraught with uncertainty, hype, barriers to innovation and requires an organisational culture change. Water industry professionals have to address, not only, classic design and management problems but also, increasingly, environmental and sustainability requirements and concerns. Drawing together information that is currently scattered across several sources, this book aims to alleviate the concerns engineers have with these issues.
With chapters written by academics and practitioners this book covers
- modelling
- planning
- operational and management issues
- leakage management
- optimal design
- asset planning and management
- a new chapter on smart new water systems.
Water Supply and Distribution Systems is a key text for early-stage practitioners, students in training to become water industry practitioners, and a useful reference book for practising engineers, particularly to provide up-to-date information on practices in today’s increasingly complex water industry.
Chapter 1. Historical development of water distribution practice; Dragan Savic and John Banyard
- Chapter 2. Basic hydraulic principles; Dragan Savic, Rob Casey, and Zoran Kapelan
- Chapter 3. Water demand: estimation, forecasting and management; Adrian McDonald, Peter Boden, and Chris Lambert
- Chapter 4. Water resource management; Julien Harou
- Chapter 5. Water treatment; Emile Cornelissen, Kees Roest, and Dragan Savic
- Chapter 6. Distribution network elements; Tiku Tanyimboh and Myles Key
- Chapter 7. Network modelling; Dragan Savic, Rob Casey, and Zoran Kapelan
- Chapter 8. Design of water distribution systems; Kalanithy Vairavamoorthy, Seneshaw Tsegaye, and Mohamed Mansoor
- Chapter 9. Operation, maintenance and performance; Joby Boxall, Neil Dewis. John Machell, Ken Gedman, Adrian Saul, Frank van der Kleij, Andrew Smith, and Nathan Sunderland
- Chapter 10. Asset planning and management; Dragan Savic, Rob Casey, Zoran Kapelan, and Mark Randall-Smith
- Chapter 11. Finance, regulation and risk in project appraisal; Ian McGuffog, Adrian Cashman, and John Banyard
- Chapter 12. Sustainability and climate change; Paul Jowitt, Adrian Johnson, and Kees van Leeuwen
- Chapter 13. Digital water supply and distribution; Peter van Thienen and Dragan Savic
Dragan A. Savić FICE, FCIWEM is Chief Executive Officer at KWR Water Research Institute based in the Netherlands and Professor of Hydroinformatics at the University of Exeter in the UK.
John K. Banyard OBE, F.R.Eng, FCGI, FICE, FCIWEM is an Independent consultant in Warwick, UK.