Guidelines for the Technical Sustainability Evaluation of the Urban Drinking Water Systems Based on Analytic Hierarchy Process

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61989100%3A27240%2F23%3A10251974" target="_blank" >RIV/61989100:27240/23:10251974 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9276/12/1/8" target="_blank" >https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9276/12/1/8</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/resources12010008" target="_blank" >10.3390/resources12010008</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Guidelines for the Technical Sustainability Evaluation of the Urban Drinking Water Systems Based on Analytic Hierarchy Process

Original language description

The challenge of achieving and measuring urban water sustainability is hard because of its complex nature. The sustainability of urban drinking water system (UDWS) is no exception, as integration of technical, environmental, social, economic, and institutional elements of sustainability is defying and perplexing in terms of its application and evaluation. This paper deals with the technical aspects related to the design, construction, operation, and maintenance factors of a UDWS. Measurement of the status of such factors is almost impossible in generic formats. Therefore, a list of measurable sub factors was developed through an extensive literature survey and refined by involving appropriate stakeholders. This led to the development of a hierarchy from criteria to factors and from factors to sub factors, making a case for the utilization of an analytic hierarchy process for multicriteria analysis. Appropriate stakeholders were included in this research to address the issues for which there were major gaps in the literature. A set of guidelines were developed for the evaluation of the status of various sub factors in a quantitative format. It is concluded that a trans disciplinary framework, the involvement of stakeholders, and guidelines for adopting appropriate processes and techniques may improve the sustainability of stressed urban water systems.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

20201 - Electrical and electronic engineering

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Resources

ISSN

2079-9276

e-ISSN

2079-9276

Volume of the periodical

12

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

26

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

000927720500001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85146762373