Embracing Analytics in the Drinking Water Industry

Analytics can support numerous aspects of water industry planning, management, and operations. Given this wide range of touchpoints and applications, it is becoming increasingly imperative that the championship and capability of broad-based analytics needs to be developed and practically integrated to address the current and transitional challenges facing the drinking water industry. Analytics will contribute substantially to future efforts to provide innovative solutions that make the water industry more sustainable and resilient.

The purpose of this book is to introduce analytics to practicing water engineers so they can deploy the covered subjects, approaches, and detailed techniques in their daily operations, management, and decision-making processes.  Also, undergraduate students as well as early graduate students who are in the water concentrations will be exposed to established analytical techniques, along with many methods that are currently considered to be new or emerging/maturing.

This book covers a broad spectrum of water industry analytics topics in an easy-to-follow manner.  The overall background and contexts are motivated by (and directly drawn from) actual water utility projects that the authors have worked on numerous recent years. The authors strongly believe that the water industry should embrace and integrate data-driven fundamentals and methods into their daily operations and decision-making process(es) to replace established “rule-of-thumb” and weak heuristic approaches – and an analytics viewpoint, approach, and culture is key to this industry transformation.

Preface

Chapter 1
Introduction
Jonathan Keck and Juneseok Lee

Part I: Planning

Chapter 2
Water demand analysis | regression
Stephanie A. Tanverakul

Chapter 3
Water demand forecasting – machine learning
Maria Xenochristou

Chapter 4
Water demand forecasting | time series data
Jarai Sanneh, A. Di Mauro, S. Venticinque, G. F. Santonastaso, A. Di Nardo, Yi Wang and Juneseok Lee

Chapter 5
Use of cost-benefit analysis (CBA) in water infrastructure
Anita M. Chaudhry

Part II: Operations

Chapter 6
Water quality modeling and analysis
Maria A. Palmegiani and Juneseok Lee

Chapter 7
Calibration and uncertainty analysis of hydraulic models
Adell Moradi Sabzkouhi, Juneseok Lee and Jonathan Keck

Chapter 8
Optimal pump operation
Adell Moradi Sabzkouhi, Juneseok Lee and Jonathan Keck

Chapter 9
Hydraulic transients in pipe systems
Juneseok Lee, Lu Xing and Lina Sela

Chapter 10
Innovative methods for optimal design of water network partitioning
Armando Di Nardo and Giovanni Francesco Santonastaso

Chapter 11
Reliability analysis using optimization
Sangamreddi Chandramouli

Chapter 12
Water network tool for resilience
Lucinda-Joi Chu-Ketterer, Jonathan Burkhardt, Katherine Klise and Terranna Haxton

Part III: Management

Chapter 13
Optimal replacement time of water mains
Juneseok Lee

Chapter 14
Water mains replacement decision using GIS analytics
Diego Martinez Garcia

Chapter 15
Decision Analysis
Eftila Tanellari and Juneseok Lee

Chapter 16
Non-revenue water, what are their determinants?
Gamze Güngör-Demirci and Juneseok Lee

Chapter 17
Water utility performance measurements using data envelopment analysis
Gamze Güngör-Demirci and Juneseok Lee

Index