Guidelines for the Technical Sustainability Evaluation of the Urban Drinking Water Systems Based on Analytic Hierarchy Process

Rukhshanda Rehman (), Muhammad Sagheer Aslam, Elżbieta Jasińska (), Muhammad Faisal Javed and Miroslava Goňo
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Rukhshanda Rehman: National Institute of Urban Infrastructure Planning (NIUIP), The University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar (UET Peshawar), Peshawar 25000, Pakistan
Muhammad Sagheer Aslam: National Institute of Urban Infrastructure Planning (NIUIP), The University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar (UET Peshawar), Peshawar 25000, Pakistan
Elżbieta Jasińska: Department of Operations Research and Business Intelligence, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, 50-370 Wrocław, Poland
Muhammad Faisal Javed: Department of Civil Engineering, COMSATS University Islamabad (CUI), Abbottabad Campus, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan
Miroslava Goňo: Department of Electrical Power Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, 708 00 Ostrava, Czech Republic

Resources, 2023, vol. 12, issue 1, 1-26

Abstract: The challenge of achieving and measuring urban water sustainability is hard because of its complex nature. The sustainability of urban drinking water system (UDWS) is no exception, as integration of technical, environmental, social, economic, and institutional elements of sustainability is defying and perplexing in terms of its application and evaluation. This paper deals with the technical aspects related to the design, construction, operation, and maintenance factors of a UDWS. Measurement of the status of such factors is almost impossible in generic formats. Therefore, a list of measurable sub factors was developed through an extensive literature survey and refined by involving appropriate stakeholders. This led to the development of a hierarchy from criteria to factors and from factors to sub factors, making a case for the utilization of an analytic hierarchy process (AHP) for multicriteria analysis (MCA). Appropriate stakeholders were included in this research to address the issues for which there were major gaps in the literature. A set of guidelines were developed for the evaluation of the status of various sub factors in a quantitative format. It is concluded that a trans disciplinary framework, the involvement of stakeholders, and guidelines for adopting appropriate processes and techniques may improve the sustainability of stressed urban water systems.

Keywords: AHP; guidelines; technical sustainability; urban drinking water systems; urban water resources (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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