Advances in Methodologies for Water and Waste Load Allocation
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water Quality and Contamination".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2023) | Viewed by 148
Special Issue Editor
Interests: water quality/quantity management; simulation and optimization; allocation; trading discharge permit; conflict resolution; game theories; climate change
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Today, with the increase in population and need for water, water supplies have some limitations, and with the rise in discharging pollution, the amount of water with suitable quality is a primary concern.
This Special Issue’s objective is to provide the reader with information on recent advances in water and waste load allocation models using various algorithms. Allocating water among various stakeholders, authorities, and demands such as drinking, industrial, and agricultural in a watershed, river, reservoir or any water system has many complexities. Parts of an allocation methodology could include simulation, optimization, and decision making, which result from distributing water supplies to meet the various demands of a community. The importance of water quality management needs to be considered by waste load allocation, and determining how to allocate waste load among discharges requires the consideration of some factors, including the source of the wastewater, the type of pollution, concentration, and volume. Optimization models are crucial tools to meet optimum allocation and could be found in one or multiobjective. Additionally, how to involve the stakeholders of the water system in the final decision is the main challenge to which conflict resolution models or multi-criteria decision-making models could be applied.
In the last century, the importance of water quality/quantity management based on increasing human activities has led researchers to develop water and waste load allocation models. Contributions dealing with advanced optimization models in water systems are of interest for publication. Additionally, papers relating to developing water and waste load allocation using simulation-optimization methodologies considering stakeholders and using decision-making such as game theories and economic and social issues are welcome. Moreover, papers on the water and wastewater market and trading discharge permits are welcome.
The Special Issue aims to collect contributions from different methodologies in water and waste load allocation, thus allowing scientists to compare and analyze aspects for solving this challenge.
Dr. Mohammad Hossein Niksokhan
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- water allocation
- waste load allocation
- decision making
- optimization
- water system
- river, reservoir
- stakeholder
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