Economic design of alternative system to reduce the water distribution losses for sustainability

• Main Authors: H. J. Surendra, B. T. Suresh, T. D. Ullas, T. Vinayak, Vinay P. Hegde
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: SpringerOpen 2021-06-01
• Series: Applied Water Science
• Subjects: Water losses; Leakage; Wrapping; Clamping; Population forecast
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13201-021-01460-y

Abstract Water companies and their consumers affected with leakages in water distribution system worldwide. This has attracted many practitioner’s attention as well as researchers over the past years. Selected study area suffers from water losses of about 10 to 15% which accounts to loss of about 9 to 9.75 million liters per month. The present study was under taken to understand, analyze and evaluate the losses and suggest preventive measures of wrapping and repair clamping for control of these losses. The assessment of water losses is done through comparative analysis of data using Microsoft Excel software. Population forecasting is done in context of assessing the amount of water lost that can be prevented in future decades, adjusting to increased water demand and losses. For better efficiency of the suggested methods, experimental analysis was carried out on a reduced scale model of a single stretched pipeline. Cost estimation of the preventive measures was done by obtaining information about the materials used by trading professionals.