Developing a Stress-Test to Assess Drinking Water Distribution Systems under Changing Demand.

Cover -- Copyright -- Summary -- Contents -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Problem description -- 1.2 Research steps -- 1.3 Approach -- 1.4 Outcomes -- 2. Stress-test to determine network robustness -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Scenarios description -- 2.3 Networks description -- 2.4 Simulating drinking water demand -- 2.5 Results overview -- 2.5.1 Daily water demand and peak demand -- 2.5.2 Maximum head loss -- 2.5.3 Maximum residence time -- 3. Stress-test to determine network robustness - Two networks layouts and 30 scenarios -- 3.1 Networks description -- 3.2 Daily water consumption and peak demand -- 3.3 Head loss -- 3.4 Water quality: residence time and self-cleaning capacity -- 3.5 Customers minutes lost -- 3.6 Network performance, robustness and operability -- 4. Transitions in the drinking water demand -- 5. Conclusions and recommendations -- 6. References -- Appendix I: Input data for SIMDEUM -- Appendix II: Results for the four network analysis.

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