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This paper addresses the issue on designing an effective sustainable water supply system both in quantity and quality side, which is considered as a prerequisite for a sustainable development strategy. In order to achieve a sustainable water supply system, System Dynamics, which is an effective system analysis and development tool, is employed in modeling and simulating the system. The study presents a decision platform, where a quantified expected resilience model is built to measure water supply satisfaction rate, and to meet the requirements of sustainability indicators firstly. After determining the sustainability requirements, namely customer requirements, water supply system is constructed using system dynamics approach, through which the threats of the system such as demand boosting, pipeline aging, and other events that cause supply disruptions are illustrated subsequently. Further, prevention strategies will be taken into account to achieve the resilience ratio in the water system. Finally, a case study of water system in Shanghai is demonstrated to show the effectiveness of the proposed method.
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This research is partly supported by the National Research Foundation Singapore under its Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise (CREATE) and the NSFC (91024013, 91024131).
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Zhao, S., Liu, J., Liu, X. (2013). Designing an Urban Sustainable Water Supply System Using System Dynamics. In: Lin, YK., Tsao, YC., Lin, SW. (eds) Proceedings of the Institute of Industrial Engineers Asian Conference 2013. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-4451-98-7_150
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