**Meet the editor**

Avi Ostfeld, D.Sc., P.E., D.WRE is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, and the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management Division, ASCE. Dr. Ostfeld was a Senior Engineer and Project Manager at TAHAL – Consulting Engineers Ltd. in Tel – Aviv from 1997 to 2000; a

Research Associate at the Department of Civil Engineering, the University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, from 1996 to 1997; and a Research Associate at the Technion Water Research Institute from 1994 to 1996. During 2008/2009 he spent sabbaticals as Visiting Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and at the University of Kyoto. Dr. Ostfeld research activities are in the fields of water resources systems, hydrology, and in particular in the area of water distribution systems optimization using evolutionary computation: water distribution systems security, optimal design and operation of water distribution systems, and integrating water quality and reliability into water distribution systems management and control.

Contents

**Preface VII**

**Distribution Systems 1** Ivo Pothof and Bryan Karney

**Supply Systems 23**

**Water Systems 49**

**Prediction 75**

Roberto Guercio

**Calibrated 131** Lajos Hovany

Chapter 3 **Infrastructure Asset Management of Urban**

Helena Alegre and Sérgio T. Coelho

Karimanzira

Chapter 1 **Guidelines for Transient Analysis in Water Transmission and**

Chapter 2 **Model Based Sustainable Management of Regional Water**

Chapter 4 **Energy Efficiency in Water Supply Systems: GA for Pump Schedule Optimization and ANN for Hybrid Energy**

H. M. Ramos, L. H. M. Costa and F. V. Gonçalves

Chapter 6 **Error in Water Meter Measuring Due to Shorter Flow and Consumption Shorter Than the Time the Meter was**

Chapter 5 **Water Demand Uncertainty: The Scaling Laws Approach 105**

Ina Vertommen, Roberto Magini, Maria da Conceição Cunha and

Thomas Bernard, Oliver Krol, Thomas Rauschenbach and Divas
