A Laboratory Investigation on the Effects of Intermittent Water Supply in a Branched System

Ferrante, Marco

doi:10.1007/s11269-023-03686-8

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“…Further research activities are needed to improve the investigation, considering more complex systems (e.g., Ferrante, 2023), functioning conditions, and field tests, which are a necessary complement to the present work.…”

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A Laboratory Investigation on the Effects of Intermittent Water Supply and Remedial Measures

Ferrante,

Rogers,

Mugabi

et al. 2024

Water Resources Research

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The intermittent water supply (IWS) of water distribution systems is a common practice caused by the imbalance between available water resources and customers' demands. Transition to the continuous water supply (CWS) is desirable to reduce quality, equity distribution, and pipe integrity issues but is often practically unachievable in the short or medium term. The World Bank funded a laboratory activity at the Water Engineering laboratory of the University of Perugia, Italy, to investigate how remedies can be introduced to mitigate the impacts of IWS and preserve pipe integrity, facilitating the transition from IWS to CWS. The results of the tests with different feeding conditions, downstream outflows, and air valve dimensions and locations are described and discussed in this paper, culminating in typical interventions that can be implemented to reduce, if not completely eliminate, the undesirable consequences.

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