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CHANGES IN WATER USE AND MANAGEMENT OVER TIME AND SIGNIFICANCE FOR AUSTRALIA AND SOUTH-EAST ASIA

  • Knight, Michael J.
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Soil and Groundwater Environment Conference
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    • 1997.11a
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    • pp.3-31
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    • 1997
  • Water has always played a significant role in the lives of people. In urbanised Rome, with its million people. sophisticated supply systems developed and then fled with the empire. only to be rediscovered later But it was the industrial Revolution commencing in the eighteenth century that ushered in major paradigm shifts In use and altitudes towards water. Rapid and concentrated urbanisation brought problems of expanded demands for drinking supplies, waste management and disease. The strategy of using water from local streams, springs and village wells collapsed under the onslaughts of rising urban demands and pollution due to poor waste disposal practices. Expanding travel (railways. and steamships) aided the spread of disease. In England. public health crises peaks, related to water-borne typhoid and the three major cholera outbreaks occurred in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century respectively. Technological, engineering and institutional responses were successful in solving the public health problem. it is generally accepted that the putting of water into pipe networks both for a clean drinking supply, as well as using it as a transport medium for removal of human and other wastes, played a significant role in towering death rates due to waterborne diseases such as cholera and typhoid towards the end of the nineteenth century. Today, similar principles apply. A recent World Bank report Indicates that there can be upto 76% reduction in illness when major water and sanitation improvements occur in developing countries. Water management, technology and thinking in Australia were relatively stable in the twentieth century up to the mid to late 1970s. Groundwater sources were investigated and developed for towns and agriculture. Dams were built, and pipe networks extended both for supply and waste water management. The management paradigms in Australia were essentially extensions of European strategies with the minor adaptions due to climate and hydrogeology. During the 1970s and 1980s in Australia, it was realised increasingly that a knowledge of groundwater and hydrogeological processes were critical to pollution prevention, the development of sound waste management and the problems of salinity. Many millions of dollars have been both saved and generated as a consequence. This is especially in relation to domestic waste management and the disposal of aluminium refinery waste in New South Wales. Major institutional changes in public sector water management are occurring in Australia. Upheveals and change have now reached ail states in Australia with various approaches being followed. Market thinking, corporatisation, privatisation, internationalisation, downsizing and environmental pressures are all playing their role in this paradigm shift. One casualty of this turmoil is the progressive erosion of the public sector skillbase and this may become a serious issue should a public health crisis occur such as a water borne disease. Such crises have arisen over recent times. A complete rethink of the urban water cycle is going on right now in Australia both at the State and Federal level. We are on the threshold of significant change in how we use and manage water, both as a supply and a waste transporter in Urban environments especially. Substantial replacement of the pipe system will be needed in 25 to 30 years time and this will cost billions of dollars. The competition for water between imgation needs and environmental requirements in Australia and overseas will continue to be an issue in rural areas. This will be especially heightened by the rising demand for irrigation produced food as the world's population grows. Rapid urbanisation and industrialisation in the emerging S.E Asian countries are currently producing considerable demands for water management skills and Infrastructure development. This trend e expected to grow. There are also severe water shortages in the Middle East to such an extent that wars may be fought over water issues. Environmental public health crises and shortages will help drive the trends.

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Characteristic Analysis and Effect of Particulate Material in Drinking Water Distribution Networks (상수도관망에서 입자성 물질의 특성분석 및 영향조사)

  • Kim, Do-Hwan;Lee, Doo-Jin;Hwang, Jin-Su;Choi, Doo-Yong
    • Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers
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    • v.35 no.5
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    • pp.312-320
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    • 2013
  • Particulates in drinking water distribution system (DWDS) are mostly influenced by internal corrosion of metal pipes and sediment in pipelines due to the solution of this effect is limited. The particle size, component and properties of compounds for particulates in distributed water are different and the difference of these characteristics will be occurred by the kind of facilities, pipe condition, external factors and supply system etc. In this study, conducting the investigation of water quality in DWDS researches with particulates in the water. Monitoring sites were each water supply reservoir and the end of water supply area in DWDS. To collect particulate material at each sampling site, $47{\phi}$ glass microfiber filter type GF/C was performed using a filtration. Substances that the effect of the turbidity in the water according to particulate suspended solids and inorganic materials is due to the increasing particulates in the end of DWDS were increased. The result of compounds analysis by using X-ray diffraction (XRD) were Goethite (${\alpha}$-FeOOH), Magnetite ($Fe_3O_4$) in the end of DWDS and Quartz ($SiO_2$), Yeelimite ($Ca_4Al_6O_{12}SO_4$) at the effluent of waterworks and reservoirs. There were differences the compounds and sediments in the releasing or remaining water distribution facilities.

Identification of Critical Elements in Water Distribution Networks using Resilience Index Measurement

  • Marlim, Malvin Samuel;Jeong, Gimoon;Kang, Doosun
    • Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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    • 2019.05a
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    • pp.162-162
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    • 2019
  • Water Distribution Network (WDN) is a critical infrastructure to be maintained ensuring proper water supply to wide-spread consumers. The WDN consists of pipes, valves, pumps and tanks, and these elements interact each other to provide adequate system performance. If elements fail by internal or external interruptions, it may result in adverse impact to water service with different degree depending on the failed element. To determine an appropriate maintenance priority, the critical elements need to be identified and mapped in the network. In order to identify and prioritize the critical elements in WDN, an element-based simulation approach is proposed, in which all the elements composing the WDN are reviewed one at a time. The element-based criticality is measured using several resilience indexes that are newly developed in this study. The proposed resilience indexes are used to quantify the impacts of element failure to water service degradation. Here, three resilience indexes are developed, such as User Demand Severity, Economic Value Loss and Water Age Degradation, each of which intends to measure different aspects of consequences, such as social, economic, and water quality, respectively. For demonstration, the proposed approach is applied to a benchmark water network to identify and prioritize the critical elements.

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Optimal placement of isolation valves in water distribution networks based on segment analysis (단수구역 해석을 이용한 상수관망시스템 내 최적 밸브위치 결정)

  • Lim, Gabyul;Kang, Doosun
    • Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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    • v.52 no.4
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    • pp.291-300
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    • 2019
  • If pipes are damaged in a water distribution network (WDN), adjacent valves are closed to isolate the pipes for repair. Due to the closed valves, parts of WDN are isolated from water supply sources. The isolated area is divided into Intended Isolation Area (IIA) and Unintended Isolation Area (UIA). The IIA occurs by intention to isolate the damaged pipe, while UIA is unintentionally disconnected from the sources due to IIA. Thus, the extension of isolated area and suspended flows are mainly affected by number and location of installed valves in WDN. In this study, optimization models were developed to determine optimal valve locations in WDN. In a single-objective model, total water supply suspension is minimized, while a multi-objective model intends to simultaneously minimize the suspended flow and valve installation cost. Optimal valve placement results obtained from both models were compared and analyzed using a sample application network.

A study on the device introduction of wastewater reclamation system a treated sewage (하수처리수를 활용한 중수도의 도입방안 연구)

  • Park, Rho-Sam;Park, Sang-Hyun
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Industry Convergence
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    • v.2 no.2
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    • pp.23-33
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    • 1999
  • After studying several methods of the application a device of a treated sewage in anticipation of the future shortage of the duty of water, we could have some conclusion as the following : Advanced treatment systems arc essential prerequisites in reusing a treated sewage. And in a short term, the application of reusing a treated sewage should go first to new building areas near the sewage but for the long run, it should cover the whole area of Taegu, it is desirable that the pipe line networks which include dual water systems as well as water supply should be spread throughout the whole city. The city authorities have to make every effort to step up publicity activities on this plan to all the citizens and building owners to steadily carry out this project and encourage private constructors to participate with the help of SOC. And for the long run, it is desirable that the application of reusing a treated sewage should be obligatory.

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Assessment of the Deterioration of Large-Diameter Pipe Networks (II) : Application to Metropolitan Multi-Regional Water Supply System (1st Phase) (대구경 관로의 노후도 평가 연구(II) : 수도권 광역상수도(1단계) 적용)

  • Lee, Seung-Hyun;Yoon, Ki-Yong;Kim, Eung-Seok
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.1096-1101
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    • 2014
  • This study (II) has appled the new assessment model of large-diameter pipe deterioration proposed by the study (I) to the metropolitan multi-regional water supply system (1st phase). In the total 30 pipelines, 24 and 27 pipelines were required for improvement as results from the existing evaluation methods 1995 and 2002, respectively. The assessment results were almost similar in the new developed model and the existing methods. It is founded that the new simple model developed in this study can produce reliable results, consistent with those from the existing methods requiring many factors for a pipe deterioration assessment. It is therefore expected that the new model would be helpful in practical applications of a pipe deterioration assessment since it can save both temporal and economic costs for experiments and analysis, as compared with existing assessment methods.

Design of Automatic Monitoring Network for the Water Quality Management of River Basin (하천 및 호소수 수질관리를 위한 자동측정망의 설계)

  • Choi, Ji-Yong;Park, Won-Kqyu;Lee, Sang-Il
    • Water for future
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    • v.29 no.2
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    • pp.167-178
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    • 1996
  • In designing automatic water quality monitoring networks for a river basin, determination of measurement locations and items is critical to the effectiveness of the total system. In this paper we studied how to decide these two design factors when a monitoring network is designed for the purposse of water quality surveillance and emergency alarm. For measurement locations, candidate sites are chosen based on the intake amount for water supply and the point sources of contamination. Then, detailed locations are decided according to the contaminant flow distance. As for measurement items, characteristics and the accident history of water pollution in the basin must be taken into account. Considering economic aspects, we proposed a two-stage measurement plan: basic components for all locations and selective ones variable for different locations. Proposed methodology is demonstrated through a case study for Nak-dong River Basin.

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A Study on the Resilient Supply of Agricultural Water in Jeju Island by Forecasting Future Demand (미래 수요예측을 통한 제주도 농업용수 회복탄력적 공급 방안에 관한 연구)

  • Go, Jea-han;Jeung, Minhyuk;Beom, Jina;Sung, Mu-hong;Jung, Hyoung-mo;Yoo, Seung-hwan;Yoon, Kwang-sik
    • Journal of The Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers
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    • v.62 no.3
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    • pp.71-83
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    • 2020
  • Resilience is the capacity to maintain essential services under a range of circumstances from normal to extreme. It is achieved through the ability of assets, networks, systems and management to anticipate, absorb and recover from disturbance. It requires adaptive capacity in respect of current and future risks and uncertainties as well as experience to date. The agricultural infrastructures with high resilience can not only reduce the size of the disaster relatively, but also minimize the loss by reducing the time required for recovery. This study aims to evaluate the most suitable drought countermeasures with the analysis of various resilience indices by predicting future agricultural water shortage under land use and climate change scenarios for agricultural areas in Jeju Island. The results showed that the permanent countermeasure is suitable than the temporary countermeasures as drought size and the cost required for recovery increase. Wide-area water supply system, which is a kind of water grid system, is identified as the most advantageous among countermeasures. It is recommended to evaluate the capability of agricultural infrastructure against drought with the various Resilience Indices for reliable assessment of long-term effect.

Optimal Design of Water Distribution Networks using the Genetic Algorithms:(II) -Sensitivity Analysis- (Genetic Algorithm을 이용한 상수관망의 최적설계: (II) -민감도 분석을 중심으로-)

  • Shin, Hyun-Gon;Park, Heekyun
    • Journal of Korean Society of Water and Wastewater
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    • v.12 no.2
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    • pp.50-58
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    • 1998
  • Genetic Algorithm (GA) consists of selection, reproduction, crossover and mutation processes and many parameters including population size, generation number, the probability of crossover (Pc) and the probability of mutation (Pm). Determining values of the parameters is found critical in the whole optimization process and a sensitivity analysis with them seems mandatory. This paper tries to demonstrate such importance of sensitivity analysis of GA using an example water supply tunnel network of the New York City. For optimization of the network with GA, Pc and Pm vary from 0.5 to 0.9 by an increment of 0.1 and from 0.01 to 0.05 by an increment of 0.01, respectively, while fixing both the population size and the generation number to 100. This sensitivity analysis results in an optimum design of 22.3879 million dollars at the values of 0.8 and 0.01 for Pc and Pm, respectively. In addition, the probability of recombination (Pr) is introduced to check its applicability in the GA optimization of water distribution network. When Pr is 0.05 with the same values of Pc and Pm as above, the optimum design costs 20.9077 million dollars. This is lower than the cost of 22.3879 million dollars for the case of not using Pr by 6.6%. These results indicate that conducting a sensitivity analysis with parameter values and using Pr are useful in the optimization of WDN.

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The Risk Evaluation on Water Supply Networks using PROMETHEE (PROMETHEE를 이용한 상수도관망시스템의 위험도 평가)

  • Hong Sungjun;Kim Sheung-Kown;Kim Jooghun
    • Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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    • 2005.05b
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    • pp.1307-1311
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    • 2005
  • 최근들어 Water Security에 대한 관심이 고조되고 있지만 국내의 경우 이에 대한 체계적인 연구가 아직 진행되지 않았고 상수도관망시스템의 오염예방 및 위험관리에 대한 연구는 매우 미비한 실정이며 특히 상수도관망시스템의 위험성 및 취약성에 대한 연구는 전무한 상태이다. 이러한 상수도관망시스템의 위험도와 관련된 여러 위험요소들은 인명의 피해, 재산상의 피해, 환경적 피해, 시스템의 피해 그리고 사회적 불안등 여러 기준을 고려하여 평가되어야 한다. 이 문제는 다기준의사결정(multi-criteria decision making)문제로서 평가기준들(criteria) 간의 상충관계(trade-off)로 인하여 판단이 모호한 대안들을 PROMETHEE(Preference Ranking Organization METHod Enrichment Evaluations) 기법을 이용하여 평가하였다. PROMETHEE는 선호의 유출량(leaving flow)과 유입량(entering flow)의 개념을 이용하여 여러 대안들의 순위선호(outranking)를 산정하는 기법으로, 의사결정자(decision matter)가 비교적 쉽게 이해할 수 있으며 기존의 AHP$\cdot$ANP와는 달리 명확한 판단이 어려운 대안들에 대해서는 비교불가능한(incomparable) 대안으로 분류한다. 이와 같은 위험도 평가결과는 위기상황에 대한 대처방안을 제시할 의사결정시스템 구축의 기초 자료가 될 수 있을 것이다.

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