Water Saving Methodologies: Leakage Control in Municipal Distribution Networks
The disparity between water demand and availability in the 3-H river basins makes water saving a priority for the socio-economic and environmental needs of the area. In this context leakage control of municipal water distribution networks offers an excellent opportunity for promoting water conservation and enhancing the performance of the organisations providing water services. In fact urban distribution systems can lose more than half of the water put into supply, and this waste of resource not only entails an environmental damage, but also increases the costs of water production, as more chemicals and energy are needed to treat and transport water through the networks. This paper focuses on the advantages of active leakage control in municipal distribution systems both from the economic and environmental standpoints. An overview of the international best practice is illustrated and emphasis is placed on the approach to attain the economic level of leakage, showing how a proactive leakage policy, that places the network under flow and pressure control, has a short payback period and brings added value in terms of water conservation and improved financial and operational performance of the water utilities.
water saving leakage economic
Augusto Pretner Alessandro Bettin Luz Sainz Jia Yangwen
SGI Studio Galli Ingegneria SpA-Padova Italy China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research (IWHR), Beijing, 100044, China
国际会议
山东东营
英文
300-311
2007-10-16（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）