Water Utilities Challenges: A Bibliometric Analysis

The water utilities are under big pressure to guarantee access their customers with the right level of service and quality due challenges such as climate change, aging infrastructure, scarcity, growing populations, which put on operations. scientific community has worked intensively over last years propose solutions alternatives for improve operation management in order overcome these challenges. This paper aims review contributions this field. result shows increasing awareness from topic translates into a number publications since beginning current century. analyzes evolution publications, identifies main countries institutions working field relationships time. It also keywords literature, grouped three topics: quality, management, optimization. development smart technologies is accelerating production towards optimization, acquiring more importance years. Future trends research related identifying specific per country proposed by address them its feasibility be applied other places.