An Approach to Assess the Water Resources Reliability and Its Management
One of the factors limiting the possibility of the development of urban agglomerations is access to drinking water. Due to progressive climate change, the available water resources are limited. The paper proposes new indicators of limiting the development of agglomerations related to the availabilit...
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| author | Jakub Żywiec Dawid Szpak Izabela Piegdoń Krzysztof Boryczko Katarzyna Pietrucha-Urbanik Barbara Tchórzewska-Cieślak Janusz Rak |
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| description | One of the factors limiting the possibility of the development of urban agglomerations is access to drinking water. Due to progressive climate change, the available water resources are limited. The paper proposes new indicators of limiting the development of agglomerations related to the availability of water resources and the production capacity of water treatment plants, a method for assessing the diversification of water resources (using the Pielou index), and a water loss balance was prepared based on International Water Association (IWA) standards. On the basis of the obtained results, the potential increase in the number of inhabitants indicators (∆P<sub>R</sub>, ∆P<sub>P</sub>) and the time for the development of agglomeration indicators (T<sub>R</sub>, T<sub>P</sub>), the directions of development of the studied agglomerations in terms of the possibility of water supply were indicated. The main problems were reducing the amount of water losses, appropriate management of the migration policy of the population, and the necessity to look for alternative sources of water. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d88260bfc0034fe98b9cdc17f6d10b052023-12-01T00:21:31ZengMDPI AGResources2079-92762023-01-01121410.3390/resources12010004An Approach to Assess the Water Resources Reliability and Its ManagementJakub Żywiec0Dawid Szpak1Izabela Piegdoń2Krzysztof Boryczko3Katarzyna Pietrucha-Urbanik4Barbara Tchórzewska-Cieślak5Janusz Rak6Department of Water Supply and Sewerage Systems, Faculty of Civil, Environmental Engineering and Architecture, Rzeszow University of Technology, Al. Powstancow Warszawy 6, 35-959 Rzeszow, PolandDepartment of Water Supply and Sewerage Systems, Faculty of Civil, Environmental Engineering and Architecture, Rzeszow University of Technology, Al. Powstancow Warszawy 6, 35-959 Rzeszow, PolandDepartment of Water Supply and Sewerage Systems, Faculty of Civil, Environmental Engineering and Architecture, Rzeszow University of Technology, Al. Powstancow Warszawy 6, 35-959 Rzeszow, PolandDepartment of Water Supply and Sewerage Systems, Faculty of Civil, Environmental Engineering and Architecture, Rzeszow University of Technology, Al. Powstancow Warszawy 6, 35-959 Rzeszow, PolandDepartment of Water Supply and Sewerage Systems, Faculty of Civil, Environmental Engineering and Architecture, Rzeszow University of Technology, Al. Powstancow Warszawy 6, 35-959 Rzeszow, PolandDepartment of Water Supply and Sewerage Systems, Faculty of Civil, Environmental Engineering and Architecture, Rzeszow University of Technology, Al. Powstancow Warszawy 6, 35-959 Rzeszow, PolandDepartment of Water Supply and Sewerage Systems, Faculty of Civil, Environmental Engineering and Architecture, Rzeszow University of Technology, Al. Powstancow Warszawy 6, 35-959 Rzeszow, PolandOne of the factors limiting the possibility of the development of urban agglomerations is access to drinking water. Due to progressive climate change, the available water resources are limited. The paper proposes new indicators of limiting the development of agglomerations related to the availability of water resources and the production capacity of water treatment plants, a method for assessing the diversification of water resources (using the Pielou index), and a water loss balance was prepared based on International Water Association (IWA) standards. On the basis of the obtained results, the potential increase in the number of inhabitants indicators (∆P<sub>R</sub>, ∆P<sub>P</sub>) and the time for the development of agglomeration indicators (T<sub>R</sub>, T<sub>P</sub>), the directions of development of the studied agglomerations in terms of the possibility of water supply were indicated. The main problems were reducing the amount of water losses, appropriate management of the migration policy of the population, and the necessity to look for alternative sources of water.https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9276/12/1/4water supplydiversificationthe Pielou indexwater managementwater losses |
| spellingShingle | Jakub Żywiec Dawid Szpak Izabela Piegdoń Krzysztof Boryczko Katarzyna Pietrucha-Urbanik Barbara Tchórzewska-Cieślak Janusz Rak An Approach to Assess the Water Resources Reliability and Its Management Resources water supply diversification the Pielou index water management water losses |
| title | An Approach to Assess the Water Resources Reliability and Its Management |
| title_full | An Approach to Assess the Water Resources Reliability and Its Management |
| title_fullStr | An Approach to Assess the Water Resources Reliability and Its Management |
| title_full_unstemmed | An Approach to Assess the Water Resources Reliability and Its Management |
| title_short | An Approach to Assess the Water Resources Reliability and Its Management |
| title_sort | approach to assess the water resources reliability and its management |
| topic | water supply diversification the Pielou index water management water losses |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9276/12/1/4 |
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