Optimal Design and Analysis of Water Distribution Networking Systemusing EPANET

Abstract

To satisfy the increasingly growing population's water demand, it is necessary to provide adequate and consistent quantities of water across the planned pipeline network. The scarce water resources must be planned scientifically and proper water distribution network can play an important role in managing non-revenue urban and rural water management. In the present work, we have applied the EPANET model for analyzing the water distribution system for a small place in Ranchi, Jharkhand. The results showed that the pressures at all junctions and the flows at all pipes are sufficient to provide adequate water for the design network. The maximum pressure was observed to be 30.04 m and the flow was also quite reasonable for transporting the water to the consumers. The study demonstrated the application of EPANET for analyzing a water distribution system and should be used to check non-revenue urban and rural water management.