WATER companies in drought- prone parts of England would be better off spending their customers' money on plugging leaky mains rather than installing water meters, according to an industry expert.Nicholas SchoonEnvironment Correspondent
2006. Development of rehabilitation plans for water mains replacement considering risk and cost-benefit assessment. Civ. Eng. Environ. Syst. 23 (3): 175-190 CrossRef .Giustolisi, O., Laucelli, D., and Savic, D. A. (2006). "Development of reha- bilitation plans for water mains ...
“It’s totally off the grid,” she warned. “There are no services—no electricity, no mains water, and no garbage pickup. You would be on your own up there. There’s one property for sale down by Lost Isles. There is another one, farther up in Port Royal, across from Fort Morga...
I did consider the possibility of using a capacitive supply followed by a DC-DC convertor to provide the isolation. I'd be more comfortable designing that than a mains supply, but I'm not sure it would be cheaper than a bought in mains to DC switcher. Logged mikeselectricstuff Super Cont...
This invention relates to the production of low cost heating gas from water and liquid hydrocarbons, particularly heavy fuel oils, by means of radiant heat, and the invention comprises both an improved process and apparatus for performing it. The invention aims to utilize low grade oil, including...
Small to medium sized water utilities are generally impacted more due to lack of technical and financial resources. This paper presents a user-friendly life cycle cost (LCC) analysis-based decision support tool to help these utility managers to prioritize water mains rehabilitation or replacement (R...
Focuses on a dispute between fire brigades and water companies in Great Britain, over investment plans by water companies which could leave the fire brigades with a 430 million pound bill. Esti...
The Department of Regional Development estimate it would cost, on average, about Au40,000 per...
Multi-objective trade-offs between cost and reliability in the replacement of water mains. J. Water Resour. Plan. Manag. 132 (2), 79e88.Dandy GC, Engelhardt MO. 2006. Multi-objective trade-offs between cost and reliability in the replacement of water...
A simulation-based LCC (SLCC) model is developed to compare different rehabilitation scenarios/alternatives for various types of water mains (i.e. cast iron, ductile iron, concrete, polyvinyl chloride and asbestos cement). Results show that open trench and slip lining are the most appropriate ...