Title
Evaluating alternatives to improve drinking water supply within a complex and uncertain human-environment system: case of the Port-au-Prince Metropolitan Region
Date Issued
01 January 2024 03 June 2024
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
González-Zeas D.
Chávez-Jiménez A.
Rodríguez-Vera M.
Pérez-Monforte S.
DGZ Ingeniería-Consultoría Sostenible
Inter-American Development Bank
Inter-American Development Bank
Abstract
Improving decision making in urban water supply systems under a wide range of changing human-environmental scenarios represents a challenging issue, especially when there is a high level of uncertainty and the available information is limited or scarce. To address this concern, the present study applied a decision aiding process to evaluate long-term planning solutions for the Port-au Prince Metropolitan Region’s water supply in Haiti, which is recognized for having a low coverage of water services and great lack of monitoring data. The methodological framework assessed pre-specified alternatives to face uncertain future conditions, with the main emphasis of being aware of how these uncertainties can be framed in the water management practices. To discover the most robust management solutions, a tradeoff analysis and multi-objective optimization allowed to explore the performance of alternatives across many future states of the world and multiple criteria. The results highlighted that human factors associated with the increase of per-capita water use and population growth posed a greater risk on water supply coverage than climatic factors. In addition, the decision support can offer a comprehensive representation of potential supply/demand futures, and provides decision-makers with the opportunity to discuss a posteriori the most appropriate water supply solution under an extensive variety of information with severe uncertainty.
Volume
23
Issue
4
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería ambiental Ciencias del medio ambiente
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85195111827
Resource of which it is part
International Journal of River Basin Management
ISSN of the container
18142060 1571-5124
Sponsor(s)
The research was supported by Inter-American Development Bank through the Project HA-T1239 in Haiti.
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