Management of Water Losses in Water Supply and Distribution Networks in Turkey
Öz
Water losses in water
supply and distribution systems have been a serious problem in Turkey and all
over the world causing economic costs and environmental drawbacks. Total water
losses is the summation of real (physical) and apparent (commercial) losses. Main
activities to reduce water losses include digitizing the components of network using
Geographical Information Systems (GIS), dividing large water distribution
networks (WDNs) into District Metered Areas (DMAs), monitoring, carrying out
yearly water balance, hydraulic modelling, pressure management, active leakage
control, recording water consumption of the users, reducing meter errors and
illegal water consumption. The Ministry of Forestry and Water Affairs in Turkey
issued a new regulation for water losses reduction in 2014 based on the methods
used to determine and reduce the losses. This is followed by issuing practical
description of the technical procedure to reduce the losses in 2015. The new
legislation aims to reduce total water losses in all water authorities below 25%
within certain time periods. All the water authorities are required to carry
out yearly water balance and report them to the ministry together with forms to
follow up the efforts towards water losses reduction. In order to apply the
prescribed techniques in a successful way, first of all water losses problem
should be understood well, technical and human resource capacity should be
improved, and sufficient financial resources should be allocated. Also, the
water utilities should have a strategic plan and a strong commitment to reduce
water losses.
Anahtar Kelimeler
Kaynakça
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Ayrıntılar
Birincil Dil
İngilizce
Konular
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Bölüm
Araştırma Makalesi
Yazarlar
Bülent Selek
Türkiye
Alev Adıgüzel
Bu kişi benim
Türkiye
Özlem İritaş
Bu kişi benim
Türkiye
Yakup Karaaslan
Bu kişi benim
Türkiye
Cumali Kınacı
Türkiye
Ayşe Muhammetoğlu
Türkiye
Habib Muhammetoğlu
Bu kişi benim
Türkiye
Yayımlanma Tarihi
15 Ocak 2018
Gönderilme Tarihi
16 Kasım 2017
Kabul Tarihi
15 Ocak 2018
Yayımlandığı Sayı
Yıl 2018 Cilt: 2 Sayı: 1
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