Urban water is facing the challenges of both scarcity and water quality deterioration. Consideration of nonconventional water resources has increasingly become essential over the last decade in urban water resource planning. In addition, rapid urbanization and economic development has led to an increasing uncertain water demand and fragile water infrastructures. Planning of urban water resources is thus in need of not only an integrated consideration of both conventional and nonconventional urban water resources including reclaimed wastewater and harvested rainwater, but also the ability to design under gross future uncertainties for better reliability. This paper developed an integrated nonlinear stochastic optimization model for urban water resource evaluation and planning in order to optimize urban water flows. It accounted for not only water quantity but also water quality from different sources and for different uses with different costs. The model successfully applied to a case study in Beijing, which is facing a significant water shortage. The results reveal how various urban water resources could be cost-effectively allocated by different planning alternatives and how their reliabilities would change.
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April 01 2013
A stochastic optimization approach for integrated urban water resource planning
Y. Huang;
Y. Huang
1School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China
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J. Chen;
1School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China
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S. Zeng;
S. Zeng
1School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China
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F. Sun;
F. Sun
1School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China
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X. Dong
X. Dong
1School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China
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Water Sci Technol (2013) 67 (7): 1634–1641.
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Received:
May 18 2012
Accepted:
November 27 2012
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Y. Huang, J. Chen, S. Zeng, F. Sun, X. Dong; A stochastic optimization approach for integrated urban water resource planning. Water Sci Technol 1 April 2013; 67 (7): 1634–1641. doi: https://doi.org/10.2166/wst.2013.036
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