Management of Water Supply Systems Resilience and Reliability

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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