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Assessing the Performance Level of a Water System

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What should System Managers prefer? Systems that never fail or systems that remain safe during a failure? The present paper tries to give an answer to this dilemma by presenting a methodology that hierarchically analyses the possible preventive maintenance actions in a water system. The whole attempt is based on appropriate indices that assess the performance level of the system, before any action is taken. This is accomplished through a technico-economical analysis that takes into account all kinds of costs referring to the repair or replacement of trouble-causing parts of the system. The methodology can be implemented to any kind of system (e.g. waterworks infrastructure concerning surface or groundwater resources). The present paper deals with a water supply network in order to present the suggested methodology.

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  1. Division of Hydraulics, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Thessaly, GR-38334, Volos, Greece

    V. K. Kanakoudis

  2. Division of Hydraulics and Environmental Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, GR-54006, Thessaloniki, Greece

    D. K. Tolikas

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Kanakoudis, V.K., Tolikas, D.K. Assessing the Performance Level of a Water System. Water, Air, & Soil Pollution: Focus 4, 307–318 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:WAFO.0000044807.41719.c7

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