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ANALYSIS AND ASSESSMENT OF WATER LOSSES IN DOMESTIC WATER DISTRIBUTION NETWORKS

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Last updated: 22 Jan 2023

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Engineering

Abstract

Water scarcity is envisioned word over due to increasing urbanization, population overgrowth and climate change. Billions of cubic meters of treated water are lost worldwide from water distribution networks through leakage, which often lead to discontinuous water supply, either because of limited raw water availability or because of water rationing. The water companies all over the world and specially in a developing country like Egypt faces a lot of challenges from poor strategic management, limited financial resources and operational management, unskilled staff, low funding priority, insufficient customer service orientation, political interference and low independent regulations. This study is aiming to reduce the amount of physical leakage from the domestic distribution networks through the application of assessment methodology of the International Water Association (IWA) for water balance assessments and the databases of performance indicators, After the analysis of the data and application of the Infrastructure Leakage Index (ILI) method, the results, the ILI of the DMA were found to be high in which indicates that the network is Poor, Tolerable and immediate actions have to be done, and a management plan has to be set in order to reduce the water losses in the future.

DOI

10.21608/jes.2022.135823.1222

Keywords

Non-Revenue Water, Water balance, District metered area, Minimum night flow, Infrastructure leakage index

Authors

First Name

Dina Sh. Abd El Atty

Last Name

khalifa

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Affiliation

Post Grad. Student, Faculty of Environmental Studies and Research, Ain Shams University

Email

dina.shaban@iesr.asu.edu.eg

City

cairo

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First Name

Noha S.

Last Name

Donia

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Faculty of Graduate Studies and Environmental Research, Ain Shams University, Egypt

Email

noha.samir@iesr.asu.edu.eg

City

Cairo

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-

First Name

Ahmed M. A.

Last Name

moussa

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

coastal Research Institute

Email

ahmed_moussa@hotmail.com

City

Cairo

Orcid

-

First Name

A. R. Hamed

Last Name

Mohamed

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Canadian International Colleague

Email

mohamedahmedreda@yahoo.com

City

Cairo

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-

Volume

51

Article Issue

7

Related Issue

36434

Issue Date

2022-07-01

Receive Date

2022-04-27

Publish Date

2022-07-01

Page Start

1

Page End

23

Print ISSN

1110-0826

Online ISSN

2636-3178

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https://jes.journals.ekb.eg/article_254523.html

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80

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Review Article

Type Code

599

Publication Type

Journal

Publication Title

Journal of Environmental Science

Publication Link

https://jes.journals.ekb.eg/

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22 Jan 2023