Water Network Tool for Resilience (WNTR) User Manual

Technical Report · Tue Aug 01 04:00:00 EDT 2017

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1376816· OSTI ID:1376816

Klise, Katherine A. ^[1]; Hart, David ^[1]; Moriarty, Dylan Michael ^[1]; Bynum, Michael Lee ^[2]; Murray, Regan ^[3]; Burkhardt, Jonathan ^[3]; Haxton, Terra ^[3]

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1. Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
2. Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (United States)
3. US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Washington, DC (United States)

Drinking water systems face multiple challenges, including aging infrastructure, water quality concerns, uncertainty in supply and demand, natural disasters, environmental emergencies, and cyber and terrorist attacks. All of these have the potential to disrupt a large portion of a water system causing damage to infrastructure and outages to customers. Increasing resilience to these types of hazards is essential to improving water security. As one of the United States (US) sixteen critical infrastructure sectors, drinking water is a national priority. The National Infrastructure Advisory Council defined infrastructure resilience as “the ability to reduce the magnitude and/or duration of disruptive events. The effectiveness of a resilient infrastructure or enterprise depends upon its ability to anticipate, absorb, adapt to, and/or rapidly recover from a potentially disruptive event”. Being able to predict how drinking water systems will perform during disruptive incidents and understanding how to best absorb, recover from, and more successfully adapt to such incidents can help enhance resilience.

• Research Organization: Sandia National Laboratories (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-94AL85000
• OSTI ID: 1376816
• Report Number(s): SAND2017--8883R; 656369
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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