Abstract
Abstract Much of the effort in optimal design of water distribution networks (WDNs) has focussed so far on minimizing cost alone, with little emphasis on reliability or on investigating the tradeoff between cost and reliability. This is a consequence of the difficulty in defining reliability measures which are meaningful and appropriate, while still of a form which can be incorporated directly into optimization models. This paper will deal with these issues. It contains three parts: (1) conceptual discussion of reliability definitions from different points of view (system versus consumers), (2) a literature survey of existing techniques to incorporate reliability in the optimal design of WDNs, and (3) a new concept for explicitly including reliability in the optimal design of WDNs.
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