June 2014

The use of high resolution monitoring in the management of water quality failures caused by discolouration

Water quality failures caused by discolouration has become a serious problem for water service providers as they seek measures to comply with increasingly stringent standards from regulatory authorities. Such measures include tools that would enable them predict discolouration events before they occur, so that they can act in a more proactive manner. This paper demonstrates how high temporal monitoring of the...

Author(s): Anonye, D. and Nwachukwu, A. N.

June 2014

Application of System Dynamics model in the determination of the unit cost of production of drinking water

Establishment of tariff structures and economic pricing regimes are contemporary issues in the water supply sector. The need to determine the economic price for water production has taken the centre stage in the face of dwindling world water resources. This paper reports the development of a System Dynamics (SD) model for the determination of the unit cost of domestic water production schemes in a developing economy....

Author(s): Adelere Ezekiel Adeniran