Simulating the Effects of Water Reuse on Alleviating Water Shortage

Abstract

How to evaluate the impacts of water reuse on alleviating water shortage is increasingly identified as one of the main challenging problems. WEAP can examine and quantify the benefits of water reuse and other water management. The effects of water reuse were simulated by defining scenario for changes in water reuse rate and maximum daily processing capacity of treatment plant inputs to WEAP. The results show that substantial reduc-tions in unmet demand when the water reuse strategy is used.

AI for Water

“…21 Accordingly, AI can be used at wastewater treatment plants for multiple use cases in decision making. 22 Decision-making support involves optimization techniques to allocate an optimal combination of factors that maximize/minimize a numerical objective function (that is, the factor affected by the decision). From the onset of hydraulic modeling, optimization techniques have been critical to water distribution networks.…”