Optimising Demand Reduction in Water Utilities

10 pages•Published: September 20, 2018

Isaac Hamling, William Bloomfield, Kar Yee Dearing and Tim Watson

Abstract

Effective water resource planning is an important part of long term strategy for any water company. A good water resource plan will ensure a long-term balance between supply and demand. In this paper we present a scalable, repeatable and transparent model for finding efficient demand reduction solutions given a large number of demand reducing options and small planning regions. This model is being developed for application in UK water utilities for demand side water resource planning to aid results presented to Ofwat, the UK Water regulator, as part of multi-billion-pound long term investment plans. The flexibility and granularity of the approach has been shown to offer significant cost savings while still allowing a utility company to meet customer and stakeholder targets and Ofwat regulatory requirements.

Keyphrases: demand, integer programming, leakage, optimization, water networks, water resource planning

In: Goffredo La Loggia, Gabriele Freni, Valeria Puleo and Mauro De Marchis (editors). HIC 2018. 13th International Conference on Hydroinformatics, vol 3, pages 874-883.

Links:	https://easychair.org/publications/paper/4Sfd
	https://doi.org/10.29007/qh19

BibTeX entry

@inproceedings{HIC2018:Optimising_Demand_Reduction_Water,
  author    = {Isaac Hamling and William Bloomfield and Kar Yee Dearing and Tim Watson},
  title     = {Optimising Demand Reduction in Water Utilities},
  booktitle = {HIC 2018. 13th International Conference on Hydroinformatics},
  editor    = {Goffredo La Loggia and Gabriele Freni and Valeria Puleo and Mauro De Marchis},
  series    = {EPiC Series in Engineering},
  volume    = {3},
  publisher = {EasyChair},
  bibsource = {EasyChair, https://easychair.org},
  issn      = {2516-2330},
  url       = {/publications/paper/4Sfd},
  doi       = {10.29007/qh19},
  pages     = {874-883},
  year      = {2018}}

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