Necessity of Sustainable water demand management (SWDM) is immensely higher in the
rapidly urbanized mega cities of the world where groundwater depletion and water deficit …

In this work we demonstrate that the combination of agent‐based modeling and simulation
constitutes a useful methodological approach to dealing with the complexity derived from …

This study presents a new approach—preprocessing for reaching the stationary chain in
time series—to unravel the interpolating problem of artificial neural networks (ANN) for long …

The aim of this study was to estimate the determinants of residential water demand for chief
towns of every Italian province, in the period 2007–2009, using the linear mixed-effects …

Using information on a basic or “lifeline” level of domestic water use obtained from a water
demand function based on a Stone–Geary utility function, a minimum water threshold of …

This paper investigated factors affecting household water consumption in major Italian
towns. Specifically, water demand in 103 Italian towns was analyzed over a five-year period …

Shadegan International Wetland (SIW) is a unique natural ecosystem with great national
and international significance, designated under Ramsar Convention. Located in southern …

Purpose Freshwater availability is reducing globally, due to increasing demand with
population growth and climate change and is disproportionately impacting developing …

Water pricing reform is crucial because it must increase consumers' well-being and enhance
the incentive role of tariff. This paper proposes a scenario-based modeling approach to …

Municipal solid waste (MSW) generation is a complex function of socio-economic
characteristics, climatic factors, and public policies and strategies. This study develops a …