Water Supply System Reliability, Resilience, Safety and Risk Modelling & Assessment, 4th Edition
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Urban Water Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 October 2026 | Viewed by 248
Editors
Interests: reliability and safety of municipal systems; water supply systems; water network; risk analysis connected with water supply systems operation; safety of water supply consumers; failure risk analysis; reliability-based risk assessment
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Interests: critical infrastructure; reliability and safety; water supply systems; consumers; failure; risk analysis; reliability-based risk assessment
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The reliability and safety of engineering systems are permanent scientific and operational issues. They become even more pressing if these systems belong to critical infrastructures. Water supply systems are part of the critical infrastructure of modern societies. The first mission of a water supply system is to provide households with potable water in the required quantity, at the appropriate pressure, and on demand, as required by statutory regulations. Risk assessments are primarily focused on supply disruption risk (shortage or deficit) and its consequences for the environment, consumer health, and the security of cities. Examinations of the current operational state, potential major threats, and related hazards should be integral to every risk assessment. The proposed approaches are meant to address a wide spectrum of issues related to the reliability, resilience, safety, and risk modeling and assessment of water supply systems.
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) multi-hazard risk modeling and resilience of urban water services; urban drainage and stormwater management (including flood risk); water quality and contamination risk (including emerging contaminants); wastewater treatment/reuse and nature-based solutions supporting service continuity; non-revenue water (NRW) and water loss control (leak detection and localization, pressure management, AMI/DMA); digital transformation of WSS (IoT/SCADA/GIS integration, digital twins, decision support, and early warning systems); cyber–physical resilience (OT/SCADA cybersecurity and incident preparedness); and climate- and urbanization-driven stressors, together with adaptation strategies for reliable and safe water supply.
Dr. Katarzyna Pietrucha-Urbanik
Prof. Dr. Janusz Rak
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- advanced metering infrastructure (AMI)
- artificial intelligence (AI)
- asset management
- contamination
- crisis management
- cyber–physical security
- cybersecurity
- data-driven decision-making
- digital twin
- district metered areas (DMAs)
- drinking water safety management
- early warning systems (EWSs)
- emerging contaminants
- emergency water supply
- failure risk analysis
- hazard identification
- IoT
- leakage detection
- machine learning
- neural networks
- non-revenue water (NRW)
- OT security
- operational intelligence
- optimal network design
- PFAS
- prediction models
- predictive maintenance
- pressure management
- rehabilitation of water distribution networks
- remote sensing
- resilience
- reliability-based risk assessment
- risk analysis
- risk assessment methodology
- risk and vulnerability assessment
- risk matrix
- robotics
- satellite leak detection
- SCADA
- smart metering
- water safety plans
- water demand modeling
- water distribution networks
- water losses
- water network failure analysis
- water quality
- water quality monitoring
- water treatment
- water–energy nexus
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