Disaster Resilience of Water Distribution Networks

Water distribution networks are infrastructure threatened by natural or man-made disasters. WDNs are primary lifelines that should be able to provide their full or partial services immediately after a disaster. Designing a WDN taking into consideration its resilience and robustness is a must today. Moreover, WDNs are part of a city's infrastructure system and thus are interconnected to all essential lifeline networks. Recent studies of failures highlight the increased vulnerability of lifelines due to their interconnectivity and the need to consider mutually dependent network properties in designing resilient systems.