Abstract:
The challenge for water supply in the twenty-first century lies in the implementation of appropriate solutions that can meet changing requirements without compromising the environment and other users of water, or placing excessive financial burden on citizens. As such, traditional storage and transfer technologies are required in parallel with new ideas for water supply and efficiency of water use. Establishing the appropriate combination of these options is a complex engineering and economic systems problem. With growing pressure on water supplies and major investment decisions ahead, a more strategic national approach is required, which we describe here as part of the system-of-systems methodology presented in Chapter 2.
Citation:
Simpson, M., Ives, M.C., Hall, J. & Kisby, C. (2016). 'Water supply systems assessment'. In: Tran, M., Hall, J., Hickford, A. & Nicholls, R. (eds.). "Planning Infrastructure for the 21st Century: A Systems-of-Systems Methodology". Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.