A Systematic Review of Quantitative Resilience Measures for Water Infrastructure Systems

Abstract

Abstract:Over the past few decades, the concept of resilience has emerged as an important consideration in the planning and management of water infrastructure systems. Accordingly, various resilience measures have been developed for the quantitative evaluation and decision-making of systems. There are, however, numerous considerations and no clear choice of which measure, if any, provides the most appropriate representation of resilience for a given application. This study provides a critical review of quantitative approaches to measure the resilience of water infrastructure systems, with a focus on water resources and distribution systems. A compilation of 11 criteria evaluating 21 selected resilience measures addressing major features of resilience is developed using the Axiomatic Design process. Existing gaps of resilience measures are identified based on the review criteria. The results show that resilience measures have generally paid less attention to cascading damage to interrelated systems, rapid identification of failure, physical damage of system components, and time variation of resilience. Concluding the paper, improvements to resilience measures are recommended. The findings contribute to our understanding of gaps and provide information to help further improve resilience measures of water infrastructure systems.

A Resilient and Sustainable Water Sector: Barriers to the Operationalisation of Resilience

“…Shin et al [78] reviewed 21 quantitative resilience measures developed for water infrastructure systems and compared them against a set of 11 resilience-based criteria. The authors highlight a number of gaps that exist within the reviewed metrics including a failure to address cascading damage to/from interconnected systems and the rapid detection of system failures.…”

“…Challenges to the broader development of quantitative resilience metrics for the water sector are also highlighted, with the authors suggesting the need for integrated measures to address the multiple performances of a water infrastructure system and to identify trade-offs between them. Such analysis emphasises the rigidity of quantitative metrics that are developed for the analysis of engineered infrastructure systems, and the inability of quantitative measures to include all resilience criteria for complex systems [78]. Metrics that fail to acknowledge the interdependencies and trade-offs in large-scale socio-technical and socio-ecological systems risk failing to provide accurate or useful results.…”

Marshaling Adaptive Capacities within an Adaptive Management Framework to Enhance the Resiliency of Wastewater Systems

“…Over the past several decades, scholars have increasingly focused on infrastructure resiliency including water (Falco and Webb 2015;Mugume et al 2015;Shin et al 2018), transportation (Eisenack et al 2012;Bhamidipati 2015;Therrien et al 2015;Mostafavi and Inman 2016;Donovan and Work 2017), and power (Reed et al 2009;Ouyang et al 2012;Lin and Bie 2016;Panteli and Mancarella 2017). Most studies of infrastructure adaptation efforts to build resilience focus on hard adaptation actions (e.g., digging impoundments, raising equipment).…”

Review of the Quantitative Resilience Methods in Water Distribution Networks

“…Furthermore, the rapid development of cities has led to the high concentration of population in cities as well as the emergence of cities as financial hubs. The cascading failures caused by the closely associated interactive infrastructures can exacerbate the impact and destructiveness of disasters [10,11].Improving the system performance and addressing new challenges have attracted the attention of system engineers, water utility managers, and operators [12][13][14][15][16]. To improve the performance and reduce the risk of the WDNs, the WDN designs are assessed by researchers based on their reliability, risk, vulnerability, and resilience.Reliability and risk describe the failure conditions from a probabilistic perspective.…”

“…Xu [42] reported potential approaches for water-leakage control and their benefits in terms of environmental conservation. Shin et al [11] reviewed quantitative approaches with respect to the water infrastructure systems, including the water resource and distribution systems.To understand the quantitative research related to WDN resilience, this study surveys the literature on the quantification of resilience in water distribution networks. We identified 1508 journal articles published from 1950 to 2018 by following systematic review guidelines.…”