Management of Water Supply Systems Resilience and Reliability
A special issue of Systems (ISSN 2079-8954). This special issue belongs to the section "Supply Chain Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2026 | Viewed by 387
Special Issue Editors
Interests: reliability of the water supply system; reliability assessment methods; human reliability assessment; safety assessment of water supply systems; risk analysis methods; risk assessment; failure analysis; crisis water supply; water losses analysis; resilience of water supply systems; water resources management; fuzzy number theory; Bayesian inference
Interests: risk analysis in water supply systems; safety of drinking water supplies; water safety plans; risk assessment of water intakes; risk maps; water supply in crisis situations; unconventional water supply methods; failure of the water supply network; water losses analysis; Bayesian networks; fuzzy set theory; gray systems theory
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Interests: water management; quality of water intended for consumption; index methods for drinking water quality assessment; matrix methods used to analyze and assess the risk of lack of water supply to water consumers; water supply under crisis conditions; failure risk analysis; the possibility of using IT tools in the engineering design process; risk maps in water engineering
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Interests: safety of collective water supply systems; risk analysis of water intakes; diversification of water sources; allocation of water in water tanks; use of hydraulic models of water supply networks to analyze crisis situations; crisis water supply in the event of energy shortages
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We present a new SI of Systems: Management of Water Supply Systems Resilience and Reliability.
Water supply systems (WSS) are critical infrastructure systems and should be managed appropriately to ensure safety and operational reliability. Currently, new threats to WSS operation appear related to ongoing climate change, the decreasing availability of drinking water resources and new water pollutants (microplastics, hormones, pharmaceuticals, etc.). One of the ways to maintain the reliability and safety of WSS operation is to build systemic resilience to these threats. As part of this Special Issue of Systems, we plan to collect high-quality research in the field of WSS reliability and resilience management. We would like to encourage the researchers to make research contributions in the following fields:
- Reliability assessments of water infrastructure;
- Resilience analyses of water infrastructure;
- Safety analyses of water supply;
- Water supply management strategies;
- Risk assessments of water supply;
- Diversification of water supply;
- Water supply crisis solutions;
- Identification of new threats for water supply.
We believe that by collecting research for this Special Issue, we will create the basis for new WSS management strategies for building resilience to emerging threats, ensuring the operational reliability and safety of WSS. This SI will also create a platform for the exchange of experiences between researchers from international research centers in the field of water supply system management.
Dr. Jakub Żywiec
Dr. Dawid Szpak
Dr. Izabela Piegdon
Dr. Krzysztof Boryczko
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- water supply system
- reliability analysis
- resilience analysis
- water supply management
- diversification
- risk assessment
- drinking water quality
- threats identification
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