Applied research for multi-scale asset management of the Walloon Water Company's drinking water supply network

Recherche appliquée pour la gestion patrimoniale multi-échelle du réseau d'adduction d'eau potable de la Société wallonne des Eaux

Eddy Renaud (eddy.renaud@inrae.fr), David Brunet (david.brunet@swde.be), Eric Smit (eric.smit@swde.be) and Yves Le Gat (yves.legat@inrae.fr)
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Eddy Renaud: UR ETTIS - Environnement, territoires en transition, infrastructures, sociétés - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement
David Brunet: SWDE - Société wallonne des eaux
Eric Smit: SWDE - Société wallonne des eaux
Yves Le Gat: UR ETTIS - Environnement, territoires en transition, infrastructures, sociétés - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement

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Abstract: The Wallon Water Company (SWDE) and the National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment (INRAE) joined forces from 2020 to 2023 to carry out the applied research project entitled ‘multi-scale asset management of drinking water networks' (GePaME). This scientific program is based on a service-performance driven water infrastructure asset management, mainly in terms of preservation of drinking water resources (control of water losses), continuity of service (control of network failures), quality of water, and service pressure. It adopts a multi-scale approach, which considers service performance from the local level (pipe segment) to the territorial level (District Metered Area (DMA), entire system) and from the short term (annual work programing) to the long term (investment strategy for the next decades). This requires being able to assess user vulnerabilities and knowing what elements of the network environment are affected by poor service performance. Furthermore, the methods and tools developed must take into account the operational organization and governance of the SWDE.

Keywords: Water infrastructure asset management; Water losses; Active leakage control; Drinking water networks; Sociology of work; Statistical modelling; User preferences; Data processing; Réseau d'eau potable; Gestion patrimoniale des infrastructures liées à l'eau; Pertes en eau; Recherche des fuites d'eau; Sociologie du travail; Préférences des usagers; Traitement de Données (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-09-13
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Published in EFFICIENT 2023, IWA, Sep 2023, Bordeaux, France

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