Integrated Planning of a Metropolitan Water and Wastewater System with Price Sensitive Water-Wastewater Service Demands

摘要

A multi-faceted water-wastewater development scheme for a metropolitan area articulated over multi-seasons and multi-time periods is presented. Water-wastewater 'development' through acquisition of more local surface and groundwater, external import, reclaimed water reuse, reallocations of consumptions among competing sectors, and conservation by invoking economic measures is considered. A deterministic approach of analyzing water-wastewater development planning, using mixed-integer programming technique, is proposed. The objective of the analytical solution is to maximize discounted value of net benefits attributable to the water-wastewater services of a metropolitan area within a specified time-horizon.