000			02045 a2200169 4500
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020			_a9783846593202
082			_a333.9112 _bPAL
100			_aPallais, Felipe Gonzalez _963982
245			_aWater demand management at urban scale using GIS data : a case study for Managua, Nicaragua
260			_aSaarbrucken _bLAP Lambert Academic Publishing _c2012
300			_aiii,xii,97,ip.
505			_aCONTENTS Abstract v Acknowledgements vi Table of Contents vii List of Tables xi Chapter 1 Introduction 1 1.1.1Objectives 2 1.1.2 Hypothesis 2 1.2 Problem Definition 3 Chapter 2 Water Demand Management 5 2.1 Introduction 2.1.1 Definitions and Terminology 5 2.1.2 Prospects and challenges in application 8 2.1.3 Metering and Pricing 10 2.2 Managing Supply: Water Loss Control. 11 2.3-2. Pressure Management 13 2.3-4. Other Measures 14 Chapter 3 GIS in Water Distribution Modelling 17 3.1 Water Distribution Networks 17 3.2 Modelling Water Distribution 18 3.3 Introduction to GIS 20 3.4 GIS and Hydraulic modelling 21 Chapter 4 Building a Model from GIS data, Managua case study 23 4.1 Case Study of Managua City 23 4.2 ENA CAL- Managua Water Utility 25 4.2.1 Demand 27 4.2.2 Supply 27 4.3 Model Parameters 36 Chapter 5 Modeling the Managua Distribution Network 39 5.1 Modelling Leakage 39 leakage assessment. 39 5.1.1 Demand Based Lekage assessment 39 5.1.2 Pressure based leakage assessment 39 5.2 Model Calibration 42 5.2.2 Network Leakage Calibration 42 5.2.3 Network Pressures Calibration 47 5.3 Functioning of the System 49 5.3.1 Managua I 50 5.3.2 Managua II 51 5.3.3 Las Mercedes 52 5.3.4 Asososca Lake 53 5.3.5 Ciudad Sandino Municipality 55 5.4 Pressures Levels 56 Chapter 6 Developing a strategy for Water Demand Management 59 - 76 Chapter 7 Conclusions and Recommendations 81 Chapter 8 References 83 Appendices 87
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