The main objective of this study is to develop a methodology that integrates indicators for performance assessment of small drinking water utilities. The investigation entails 10 water utilities in the Province of Québec (Canada) that use surface water or groundwater under the direct influence of runoff, and apply chlorination as the only treatment before distribution. All 10 water utilities we...

A. GENERAL Water diversion is presumed to be caused by the Customer receiving the benefit of service from the diversion. Whenever the Utility has determined that water diversion is occurring or a hazardous condition exists at a given location, the Utility shall investigate and may disconnect the service immediately. In order to restore service discontinued under the provisions of Section B abov...

The fuzzy preference framework of Graph Model for Conflict Resolution (GMCR), handling both crisp and fuzzy preferences of decision makers (DMs), is capable of calculating and predicting different conflict resolutions (equilibria) according to DMs’ different satisficing criteria. Employing this methodology, a water contamination conflict occurs at the boundary of Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces ...

The present study deals with the performance evaluation of five irrigation subsystems by considering eight different criteria. Two Multi criterion Decision Making (MCDM) methods, namely, stochastic extension of PROMETHEE-2 (STOPROM-2) and Multi-Attribute Utility Theory (MAUT) are employed to select the best one among the five irrigation subsystems. Taguchi methodology is employed to minimize th...

In this paper, we develop a new distributed adaptive power control framework for multi-cell OFDM systems based on the game theory. A specific utility function is defined considering the users’ achieved average utility per power, i.e., power unit based utility. We solve the subcarrier allocation issue naturally as well as the power control. Each user tries to maximize its utility by adjusting th...

The paper describes the case of development of a rural technology product in a high-technology IT (information technology) environment. The product is a lowcost water filter for which there is a definite need in rural India. The case brings out how even a simplelooking concept for water filtration has to go through several well-defined steps for successful introduction into the field. These evo...