AWWA ACE70861

With the Triple Bottom Line (TBL) of sustainability, total water management efforts mustanalyze alternatives to address the potentially conflicting goals of economics (financial),environmental, and social issues. Goal programming is a technique which uses optimizationmethods to provide a means to solve a problem by striving towards multiple objectivessimultaneously. This research seeks to apply an optimization framework to the integratedwater supply planning process. The research has developed a methodology that cansuccessfully generate a feasible set of alternative solutions while balancing all three goals of theTBL. Includes tables, figures.

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Edition:

Vol. - No.

Published:

11/01/2009

Number of Pages:

66

File Size:

1 file , 6.2 MB