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Chapter 3 Decision Support Model (IUWS-DSM) - Tubdok

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82 New Conception and <strong>Decision</strong> <strong>Support</strong> <strong>Model</strong> for <strong>IUWS</strong><br />

Figure 37 provides the chance to compare the the water usage from different angles.<br />

Indirect potable reuse in CA consumes the most water but discharge the least used water.<br />

Indirect potable reuse in UD stays in the medium condition considering both water withdrawal<br />

and used water discharge. Using the options of roof-water and direct non-potable reuse in<br />

WUU and local sources in UD together has the lowest water withdrawal with the medium<br />

level of used water discharge. And whatever in which situation, roof-water utilisation reduces<br />

the water withdrawal. Such kind of analyses and comparison can be further performed based<br />

on the graph. If it is helpful, it can go back to UD and WUU in order to find out the optimal<br />

water usage. Moreover, the same comparison can be carried out between different water<br />

usage scenarios, which are not verbosely described here.<br />

There can be some options that are appropriate, and which are the better ones may not<br />

be directly identified based on the water usage. Therefore, further comparison for WIS needs<br />

to be achieved based on system costs and energy consumption.<br />

10 3 m 3 /d<br />

200<br />

150<br />

100<br />

50<br />

0<br />

-50<br />

-100<br />

-150<br />

WUU:<br />

ext.src.<br />

+rf.wa.<br />

UD:ext.src.<br />

(+loc.src.)<br />

CA: loc.src.<br />

+indrct.reuse<br />

Scenario 1<br />

WUU:<br />

ext.src.<br />

Water Usage of CA (as demonstration)<br />

+rf.wa.<br />

+drct.<br />

reuse<br />

+both<br />

WUU:<br />

basic<br />

+rf.wa.<br />

WUU:<br />

ext.src.<br />

UD: ext.src. (+loc.src.) UD:+indrct.reuse UD:+drct.reuse<br />

CA: loc.src. +ext.src.<br />

+rf.wa.<br />

Figure 37: Water usage of CA (demonstration)<br />

ext.src. (CA)<br />

indrct.reuse (CA)<br />

srfc.runoff (CA)<br />

loc.src. (CA)<br />

loc.src. (UD)<br />

used.wa.->disch.<br />

wa.demand (CA)<br />

In a holistic view, the relations between total water demands and water sources need to<br />

be revealed. As defined in § 1.3.3, the model copes with two situations: 1. planning of new<br />

area and 2. expansion of existing area. Both situations are presented together in Figure 38.<br />

All possible sources are given for satisfying the maximum possible water demand. The<br />

maximal amount of reused water is adapted in order to represent the extreme situation. All<br />

water sources depicted from bottom to top in the figure are in the same sequence as their<br />

general priorities given in Table 19. The total water demands in <strong>IUWS</strong> can be various in<br />

different scenarios based on different EUWUPs. Figure 38 clearly shows the relations<br />

between water demands and sources, which help model users to determine the suitable<br />

water scenarios and properly organise the water sources.

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