Influence of Climate Change on the Optimization of Water Supply Systems

9 pages•Published: September 20, 2018

Mario Maiolo, Giuseppe Mendicino, Daniela Pantusa, Alfonso Senatore and Joaquim Sousa

Abstract

In the last decades, climate change is affecting several aspects of human and natural systems worldwide. Concerning water resources, the main impacts are related to the combined effect of temperature increase and changes in availability and distribution of precipitation, which affects both quantity and quality. The Mediterranean is potentially very sensitive to climate change. In Calabria (Southern Italy) the projected reduction suggests a particular care in matching water resource availability and needs. In this paper, the province of Crotone in Calabria was analyzed as a study case. This area is characterized by a sufficient availability of resources as a whole when compared with the needs of the users, but with an unbalanced distribution through its networks. This condition requires the identification of a resource allocation optimization solution. Using a least-cost optimization model, water resource optimization solutions were identified and compared starting from a review of the existing water supply systems, taking into account both current water availability and possible future availability due to climate change.

Keyphrases: climate change, matlab, optimization, water supply systems

In: Goffredo La Loggia, Gabriele Freni, Valeria Puleo and Mauro De Marchis (editors). HIC 2018. 13th International Conference on Hydroinformatics, vol 3, pages 1289-1297.

Links:	https://easychair.org/publications/paper/QHHp
	https://doi.org/10.29007/qwwt

BibTeX entry

@inproceedings{HIC2018:Influence_Climate_Change_Optimization,
  author    = {Mario Maiolo and Giuseppe Mendicino and Daniela Pantusa and Alfonso Senatore and Joaquim Sousa},
  title     = {Influence of Climate Change on the Optimization of Water Supply Systems},
  booktitle = {HIC 2018. 13th International Conference on Hydroinformatics},
  editor    = {Goffredo La Loggia and Gabriele Freni and Valeria Puleo and Mauro De Marchis},
  series    = {EPiC Series in Engineering},
  volume    = {3},
  publisher = {EasyChair},
  bibsource = {EasyChair, https://easychair.org},
  issn      = {2516-2330},
  url       = {/publications/paper/QHHp},
  doi       = {10.29007/qwwt},
  pages     = {1289-1297},
  year      = {2018}}

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