In future cities, urban water systems (UWSs) should be designed not only for safe provision of services but should also be resilient to emerging or unexpected threats that lead to catastrophic system failure impacts and consequences. Resilience can potentially be built into UWSs by implementing a range of strategies, for example by embedding redundancy and flexibility in system design, or by rehabilitation to increase their ability to maintain acceptable customer service levels during unexpected system failures. In this work, a new resilience analysis is carried out to investigate the performance of a water distribution system (WDS) and an urban drainage system (UDS) during pipe failure scenarios. Using simplified synthetic networks, the effect of implementing adaptation (resilient design) strategies on minimising the loss of system functionality and cost of UWSs is investigated. Study results for the WDS case study show that the design strategy in which flexibility is enhanced ensures that all customers are served during single pipe failure scenarios. The results of the UDS case study indicate that the design strategy incorporating upstream distributed storage tanks minimises flood volume and mean duration of nodal flooding by 50.1% and 46.7%, respectively, even when system functionality is significantly degraded. When costs associated with failure are considered, resilient design strategies could prove to be more cost-effective over the design life of UWSs.
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July 07 2015
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Seith N. Mugume;
1University of Exeter, Centre for Water Systems, College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences, North Park Road, Exeter, EX4 4QF, United Kingdom
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Kegong Diao;
Kegong Diao
1University of Exeter, Centre for Water Systems, College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences, North Park Road, Exeter, EX4 4QF, United Kingdom
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Maryam Astaraie-Imani;
Maryam Astaraie-Imani
1University of Exeter, Centre for Water Systems, College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences, North Park Road, Exeter, EX4 4QF, United Kingdom
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Guangtao Fu;
Guangtao Fu
1University of Exeter, Centre for Water Systems, College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences, North Park Road, Exeter, EX4 4QF, United Kingdom
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Raziyeh Farmani;
Raziyeh Farmani
1University of Exeter, Centre for Water Systems, College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences, North Park Road, Exeter, EX4 4QF, United Kingdom
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David Butler
David Butler
1University of Exeter, Centre for Water Systems, College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences, North Park Road, Exeter, EX4 4QF, United Kingdom
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Water Supply (2015) 15 (6): 1343–1352.
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Received:
January 07 2015
Accepted:
June 22 2015
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Seith N. Mugume, Kegong Diao, Maryam Astaraie-Imani, Guangtao Fu, Raziyeh Farmani, David Butler; Enhancing resilience in urban water systems for future cities. Water Supply 1 December 2015; 15 (6): 1343–1352. doi: https://doi.org/10.2166/ws.2015.098
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