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  • Long-term water supply planning in an Australian coastal city: Dams or desalination?

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    Author(s)
    Scarborough, Helen
    Sahin, Oz
    Porter, Michael
    Stewart, Rodney
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    Stewart, Rodney A.
    Sahin, Oz
    Year published
    2015
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    Water resource managers and planners are continually involved in defining and evaluating alternative policies to better meet changing water supply conditions and the expectations of society. To undertake such long-term water supply planning, this study developed a novel integrated system dynamics model to combine economic, social and scientific variables and considerations within the planning horizon. Extensive sensitivity analysis for these variables was considered in this long term water resource planning process. The analysis suggests that over a longer time horizon, desalination provides a more viable, cost effective and ...
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    Water resource managers and planners are continually involved in defining and evaluating alternative policies to better meet changing water supply conditions and the expectations of society. To undertake such long-term water supply planning, this study developed a novel integrated system dynamics model to combine economic, social and scientific variables and considerations within the planning horizon. Extensive sensitivity analysis for these variables was considered in this long term water resource planning process. The analysis suggests that over a longer time horizon, desalination provides a more viable, cost effective and secure bulk water supply alternative when compared to building large rain-dependent dams.
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    Journal Title
    Desalination
    Volume
    358
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.desal.2014.12.013
    Copyright Statement
    © 2015, Elsevier. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, providing that the work is properly cited.
    Subject
    Chemical sciences
    Engineering
    Water resources engineering
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/69190
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