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Modeling and Implementing of an Agent-Based

Decision Application WATERDSS: Water
Decision Support System for Water Resource
Management
Hussein A. Salah1, Mariana Mocanu2 , Adina Florea3
1

Faculty of Automatic Control and Computer, University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest, Romania. On leave from Middle
Technical University, Technical Institute- Suwaira, Iraq.
2, 3

Faculty of Automatic Control and Computer, University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest, Romania

Abstract
This paper presents an approach to the creation of an agentbased system that aims to presenting an application for
decisions in ecosystem analysis. The issue of drinking water
quality is very important in the world, so, an agent based - web
decision support infrastructure (WATERDSS) has been
designed and implemented to provide an access to simulation
and experimental results on flow water- quality conditions and
to offer sophisticated scenario testing capabilities for research
and drinking water treatment plant planning through the
graphical user interface with known controls. The design of
drinking water treatment plant in WATERDSS depends on the
characteristic of raw water and the water quality parameters.
We presented many strategies to manage water quality and
water pollution to protect human health by building an agent
based - web decision support system to help an authority of
water supply stations to find information about water resource
management available as an online service. The water quality
service uses a set of (13) water-quality parameters according
to water quality index (WQI) analysis and (24) water-pollution
parameters. The system suggests a decision for treatment of
the water. WATERDSS tests the data of water resource
management stations in real-time by using mathematical
models, Web technologies, decision tree and data mining are
used to build decision making system in this research. The
results of the test are presented with time series graphs, email
reports and web sites. The system automatically sends
warnings when water pollution levels are exceeded, using text
messages as email reports. The main contribution of our study
is to provide an efficient tool that helps researchers on
drinking water treatment plant to find information resources
available as an online service within internet.

Keywords: Decision support system, Water quality,

Water pollution, Agent based decision support system

1. INTRODUCTION
The use of agentbased web decision support systems
(WATERDSS) to support decision making is an important
water resource management tool, as it allows water supply
providers to quickly gather information and process it in
various ways in order to assist in diagnosing and making

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treatment decisions in the event of water pollution

accidents.
The areas in which these systems could help is diverse,
from storing and retrieval of water quality records, storing
and retrieval of key treatments from pollution causes,
examination of real-time data gathered from documents,
water parameter value information, analysis of correlation
criteria that affect water status, status history analysis for
the purpose water related disease identification and
analysis of its effect on human health, and analyzing the
results of water quality and water pollution calculations in
many other stations.
The necessity of the research described in this paper is
fundament by the fact that environmental pollution,
resulting from water pollution, adversely affects health.
The term (water pollution) includes factors such as
Organic chemicals, Infectious agents, Inorganic
chemicals, Sediment, Plant nutrients, Oxygen-demanding
wastes and Thermal.
This research considers the need to assist the
responsible drinking water supplier authorities in their
decision-making process. As there are many approaches to
decision making, and because of the wide range of fields
in which decisions are made, the decision support system
(DSS) concept is very broad. A DSS can take many
different forms.
In general, it is accepted that a DSS is a computerized
system that aids in decision-making. A decision is a
choice between alternatives based on the estimates of
those alternatives values. We have proposed building a
model integrating a decision support system, data mining
and an agent system. An approach to develop a decision
support system which will make decisions under complex
environments has been made [1].
Designing an effective decision-support system has
become crucial in recent years. Systems have to be able to
deal with uncertain information. The systems have the
ability to learn and adapt to new environmental
conditions.
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Data mining is the process of extracting hidden
predictive information from large databases. It is a
powerful technology with great potential in aiding
organizations focus on the most important information in
their data warehouses. The automated, prospective
analyses offered by data mining goes beyond the analyzing
past events, which is provided by retrospective tools
typical of decision support systems. Data mining is one of
the tasks make up the discovery knowledge process
starting from data. The data stored in the database is used
to discover data patterns, which are then interpreted by
applying knowledge in the field. Data mining applications
can be generic or domain specific.
The generic application must be an intelligent system
that can make certain decisions on its own, such as: data
selection, selection of the data mining method,
presentation and interpretation of the results. Agent
technology is increasingly being used to support executive
decision-making in DSS environments. DSS are computer
programs that aid users within problem solving or
decision-making environments. These systems support a
specific decision problem by making use of data models,
algorithms, knowledge bases, user interfaces, and control
mechanisms.
Various researches have shown the uses of DSS in order
to handle complex decision modeling and management
processes [2]. New approaches of researching agent based
decision support system (ABDSS) have appeared,
following the rapid progress of agent systems and network
technology. Thus there emerged a wide range of works
dedicated to environment and human health implemented
as multi-agent systems (MAS), which have been the
center of active research for more than ten years and have
resulted in many successful applications [1].
The aim of this research is to present an environment
agent-based DSS in detail, including water resource
management issues. Agentbased web DSS provides
methods of calculating water quality and water pollution
starting from documents, methods of finding water
pollution result solutions, computing the effect of climate
on water quality factors, and means of avoiding the risks
of water pollution on human health. Also, an available
online tool that can be used to support water managers
and scientists who have used the predictive capabilities of
the water management models is presented. These models
typically use mathematical process representations. In
addition, monitoring and geospatial data to estimate
water-quality and water pollution conditions over time
have also been included.
Formally, the Water Quality Index (WQI) is the
processes of calculating water quality parameters to find
information about water status, carried out in text files or
by using the manual method. In other words, the final
result of the WQI will attempt to automatically provide a
list of water statuses, such as: Excellent (the water status

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is excellent), good water (the water status is good), poor

water (the water status is poor and is unsuitable for human
supply), very poor water (the water status is very poor and
unsuitable for human supply), and lastly, water unsuitable
for drinking (the water status is very bad and unsuitable
for human supply) [3].
According to agent based WATERDSS automatic WQI
calculation evaluations, the process calculation task must
contain the identification parameters mentioned. As
mentioned above, our concern was to have a system that
automatically calculates the water quality index
(WATERDSS).
Also, such a system will correlate between water quality
parameters and climate events to find which parameters
will affected by climate events. Such a system will pass
the result to the next agent that is responsible for
calculating water pollution parameters from different
sources using all tagged attributes in order to analyze and
build a system specific to water pollution causes. As any
DSS system, WATERDSS will provide suitable advice for
avoiding water pollution accidents and will evaluate each
disease related to each pollution cause.
Furthermore, the selected pollution cause must mainly
contain treatment events. Due to this fact, it was very easy
to find a proper medication-based treatment and a suitable
way to handle each type of water pollution.
Therefore, and for the purpose of creating our target,
namely the WATERDSS, we have presented the results in
a paper [3]. Furthermore, it was needed for water
pollution calculation; therefore, we developed for the
purpose of water pollution calculation [4] and to study the
ontology development (OWL&UML) methodology of
agent- based decision support system for water resource
management in WATERDSS was built in [5].

2. RELATED WORK
The issue of drinking water quality is very important in
the world, so a web decision support infrastructure has
been developed to provide access to simulation results on
flow water- quality conditions and to offer sophisticated
scenario testing capabilities for research and water-quality
planning through the graphical user interface with known
controls [6].Water crises around the world often occur
because of global climate change and the increasing
intensity of human activity.
The main cause for water crises is the lack of
sustainable methods of water resource management. In
response to the real water resource management problems,
a web DSS has been designed as an easy-to-use and userfriendly interface. The DSS consists of an information
management system that leads data collection,
verification, management and visualization, and models
estimated water demand and water distribution [7]. The
management of water is a complex engineering problem
that includes various technical, social, economic,
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environmental, cultural and legal issues depending on the
various forms of uncertainties such as fluctuations,
randomness, the cognitive nature of parameters and model
algorithms.
The application of the DSS is employed in various areas
of water resource management, such as the management
of water resources, water and wastewater treatment [8].
The visualization, design and implementation of an online
course on the topic of decision support system in river
basin management is very useful in avoiding pollution
crises. The planning and management of water resources
increasingly depends on decision support capabilities,
such as simulation and multi criteria analysis [9].
Drinking water networks consisting of surface water are
weak in the short-term variation of inputs of organic
matter. This affects raw water quality and increases the
intensity of rainfall as well as the frequency of heavy
rainfall events. These changes may strongly affect the
water quality and processing operations [10].
The new application model for designing this software
system-composite, service-oriented and multilayered web
information system for the management of lakes and
reservoirs describes the architecture and services of the
application model, together with the structure and
functionalities of the software solution[11] .To support
water quality management under hybrid uncertainties, we
have developed a model-based decision support system
based on a hybrid uncertain programming model with
fuzzy and interval coefficients. The system provides an
effective tool for decision makers in dealing with the
problems of water quality and developing policies and
strategies [12].

necessary for our system model. They are illustrated in the

UML diagram from Figure 1 as following.
Home page: Read the latest updates on the events and
activities carried out in within our organization.
Thus, you can be informed promptly and efficiently.
Read about the required documents for water and/or
water pollution connection works contract conclusion.
Water report: Select on the map or in the list the
address which is the closest to your home / place you
want to view the water analysis report.
Water pollution: evaluating the pollution system and
deciding whether it is necessary to transmit alert of
water state.
Water quality: collecting information from
responsible persons pertaining to water laboratory,
and calculate water quality index for make decision
about water state (suitable for drink or not).

3. DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR WATER

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
The main point of using decision support systems (DSS) is
to provide a user with the possibility to consult with an
automated system while making decisions. The DSS, as a
rule, includes a set of procedures, starting from data
determination and processing, and finishing by generation
and evaluation of alternatives. Thus, a typical DSS can be
logically divided and represented by three main
calculation modules or levels: the first one, responsible for
data fusion and pre-processing, the second, dedicated to
necessary calculations (modeling, data mining, etc.) and
the third, which executes simulation and manages human
computer interaction.
3.1 UML design of the DSS domain for water
management
The system modeled in this research is under development
in the Cyber Water research project. The system involves
the following stakeholders .We identified UML
capabilities that correspond to conceptual service

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Figure1 The service diagram interface of the

WATERDSS domain
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Figure 1 shows the capabilities that exposed by
appropriate service interface for example water pollution
alert provided by River authority. It realizes the pollution
alert interface, providing a service to the administration
software, and it uses water pollution treatment interfaces,
thus consuming the services offered by water quality
management. This diagram introduces the consumer and
the provider for each service interfaces.
3.2 OWL design of the DSS domain for water
management
The OWL version of the water management model was
created with Protg (see Figure 2) using its semi- formal
representation. The user-friendly graphical user interface
of Protg was used to create the class hierarchy (classes,
instances and inheritance structure), slots, and domain
and range of slots respectively. These features of the water
resource management model were created based on its
UML representation (see Figure 1). The resulting Protg
file was saved as an OWL file.

4. DESIGN OF THE PROPOSED AGENT BASED

WATERDSS
An Agent based - web decision support infrastructure
(WATERDSS) has been designed to provide access to
simulation and experimental results on flow water- quality
conditions and to offer sophisticated scenario testing
capabilities for research and drinking water treatment
plant planning through the graphical user interface with
known controls, also (WATERDSS) provide an
information about water resource management available
as an online service within Internet at www.waterdss.com
4.1 Reports of Agent Tasks
The tasks of Automatic report of agent in each task in the
WATERDSS can be presented in the algorithm below:
Input: upload text file
Process to MySQL
Calculate the value of Water Quality Index (WQI)
IF the value of WQI is larger than 100
1. Input user login to input the data for water pollution
parameters
2. Mathematical Analysis of data
3. Provides communication Agent-to-climate events.
4. Decision making
5. Send email report that included the information of
water pollution and determined the suitable way to
treatment the pollutants water
6. Display the menu that responsible for human health
center
7. provide the suitable website for users to know the
treatment
8. Audit-log-records the time of excel file to retrieval it
when we need
9. Analysis agent's results
10. Display the climate events that affected on the
water quality parameters
11. Else
Send email report to the authority, the water is suitable for
human
End IF
Figure4 Algorithm of Automatic reports of Agent Tasks

Figure3 The ontology of the entire main components for

WATERDSS framework

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4.2 Algorithm and System Flow of WATERDSS
The main problem of the agents is not really separated in
their execution from the platform. The design of
architecture
Water
Decision
Support
System(WATERDSS) platform can define the object of
clarifying something which exist in the real world like
(user) and in the present minds which belongs to the
system architecture model like (agents). The algorithm of
WATERDSS application can be implemented in Global
Remotely agent and Local server agent's servers.

Figure5 Process the system flow of WATERDSS agent

platform.
Figure (6), illustrates the data flow for processing the
WATERDSS platform, and the algorithm for data
processing in WATERDSS platform describes how the
system process of data will be (dynamic, autonomy and
flexible):

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Figure6 Data Flow in the proposed system (WATERDSS)

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4.3 The architecture of WATERDSS
The primary goal when utilizing agent-based decision
support systems (WATERDSS) is to provide users with
the option of referencing an automated system during the
decision- making process. The WATERDSS includes a
set of procedures which begin with data determination
and processing, and whose end result is the generation
and evaluation of alternatives.

Figure 7 System architecture of agent water

management decision support system (WATERDSS)
Figure 7 shows the proposed agent-based decision
support system (WATERDSS) architecture. Its
development followed and complied with the typical
structure of a DSS. The system is broken down into three
levels, the first level handling meta-data creation, the
second level performing hidden knowledge discovery
and data mining, and the third level enables, data
distribution and visualization and provides real-time
decision making support, which is the aim of the
application. Their main tasks are completely described at
each level.
The data which WATERDSS has to deal with is
presented in form of distributed data storages, which
differ in: (1) data representation formats, (2) data
syntaxes and (3) semantics. The first problem addresses
format types, since information can be stored in text
format. The second problem stems from the fact that
different scales may be employed when measuring the
same concept and a different number of attributes can be
added when registering it. Thus, the aim of this level is
to address and solve these problems, since the system
requires homogeneous and fused meta-data in order to
function.
Fully controlling data retrieval and maintenance and
executing all the necessary pre-processing functions at
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form a meta-database, consisting in time series, which

then pass through the sequential steps of data processing.
The final meta-database consists of sequences of ordered
the water indicator values, measured at equal time
intervals (time-series). It is delivered to the next layer for
knowledge discovery.
Only the DM techniques which satisfy these
requirements will be utilized. In general, this proposals
aim is to reveal the interconnections between water
quality index and water pollution indicators, in order to
qualitatively evaluate the influence of water pollution
indicators. In order to select and qualitatively evaluate
the most significant pollutants for every class, the
principal component analysis (PCA) procedure is
sequentially applied to every class of water status and the
all of the water pollution indicators. This is carried out
using agents that run based on the decision tree approach
and the mathematical procedure of principal component
analysis.
In the final step, the information is forwarded to its
final destination applications and end-users as text files,
web messages, visual presentations and e-mails. This
level transforms the information revealed, including
computer simulation, forecasting and decision making
results into multiple understandable forms. These tasks
are carried out in the data distribution subtask, which
acts to combine text and graphical descriptions of
recommendations.

5. WATERDSS IMPLEMENTATION
The components of the WATERDSS approach are many
fields as links (see Figure 8). 1-Home page: contains
information about the WATERDSS web site such as the
news, station details, research centers and reports to send
water statuses to the authority controller. 2-Stations:
shows the locations of each water station in Baghdad
city. 3- Applications: Includes the programs for
calculating water quality and water pollution. 4-Report:
send the water state report for decisions of supplying or
not supplying water to the people. 5-Relevant work:
includes many researches that relevant to the
WATERDSS project. 6-Scientific research: includes a
program for computing the correlation between climate
events (water parameter values) and water quality
parameters.7-Water descriptions: provides all the water
quality parameters used in ascertaining water suitability.
8-Agent: responsible for uploading water parameter
value files and processing those in the Application
programs (see Figure 8). The propagation of uncertainty
at each step of the decision process is the key of the
WATERDSS components. Data from a wide variety of
different sources, as well as stakeholder values and
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preferences, will be combined as part of the decision
analysis process. Highly uncertain information and data
are essentially weighted inversely to their uncertainty.

Figure 9 Station locations on the Tigris River

Figure 8 Home page of the water management decision
support system (WATERDSS)
Baghdad, the largest city in Iraq, stands on the banks of
the Tigris (Figure 9). Most of Iraq's population lives in
this region. The Tigris River provides water for irrigation
and drinking. The water of the Tigris River is considered
the only source of potable water for Baghdad city. The
river divides the city into two sides: west (Alkarkh) and
east (Alrasafa), with a flow direction from north to south.
In Baghdad city, there is a huge increase in demand for
fresh water consumption due to the rapid population
growth and rapid industrialization. Agriculture is
widespread on both sides of the river. Thus, river water
quality monitoring is necessary to evaluate the quality of
different water uses. In response to this development
pressure, local planners, managers and stakeholders will
assist in developing smart growth policies that allow for
growth while maintaining water quality, reducing water
pollution problems and protecting population health. To
achieve this, it is essential to evaluate a wide range of
information and to analyze alternative development
strategies. The present study seeks to address the problems
facing local authorities and planners in relation to the
issues of water management, by developing the agentbased web decision support system (WATERDSS) that
will identify and prioritize local water stations using
multiple environmental criteria.

Figure 9 shows the location of the water stations

involved in this study. These water stations include
most of the water supply sub-stations in Baghdad city.
On choosing a station, a new window is opened to
input water quality and water pollution data. Owing to
these features, the effects of water pollution could be
avoided and the treatment of the pollution causes that
affect human health can be applied.

Figure 10 Main windows for selecting the station for

water quality calculating

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There are two water supply stations in Baghdad city,
AL-KARKH and AL-RASAFA (Figure 10). The data
analysis and modelling environment can be retrieved
through DBMS (MySQL) in order to calculate the water
quality and actual water status, which is further provided
as an input for analyzing the ecosystem model to obtain
actual advice and benefits of the distinct practices for
avoiding water pollution. Furthermore, a simulation
report generation service was also provided to the client
to facilitate a comparative analysis of different possible
planning strategies to achieve an optimal solution. All
information is stored in a meta-database.

Figure 12 An example for input data for calculating the

water quality index

Figure 11 Main windows of data analysis and modeling

for water quality calculation

Figure 11 shows the water quality data input page. The

user will input data in (Ci) column only, which
represents the observed concentration of each water
sample, the rest columns will be automatically calculated
and will display the data analysis result (see Figure 12).

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Figure 12 displays the data analysis result used for

calculating the water quality index (see the equations
above). The figure shows that the water status was poor
water, because the summation result in the last column
(wqi =2665.2196) divided by the summation of
(Wi=14.74) = 180. The conditions used to evaluate water
quality which, if the WQI value is 100-200, then the water
quality status is poor water. Finally the program will send
an email report to the authority person which includes all
the test information.
The overall water pollution model process for both
stations is explained in the Figure 13 and 14. The
standard values of the water pollution parameters are
stored initially in a table in DBMS (MySQL server). There
are different 24 parameters that can cause water pollution,
and standard values have been defined for each specific
parameter. Based on them, we can determine the type of
water pollution as well as the suitable water treatment and
thus we can make a decision that contains suitable advice
for the treatment of a specific kind of pollution. The
application automatically sends an email to an authorized
person/group of persons, with information regarding the
pollution event. The email message includes information
regarding the water pollution causes, the source of this
pollution, the risks associated to this kind of pollution as
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well as the suggested treatment. All information is stored
in a meta-database.

the data analysis and mining, and finally provides a

decision related to the type of pollution, treatments, some
examples and sources of the pollution types. Finally, the
program will send an email report to the authority person
including all the test-related information.

Figure 13 Main window for calculating water pollution

of agent based water decision support system

Figure 15 An example of input data for calculating

water pollution parameters

Figure 14 Input data for calculating water pollution of

agent based water decision support system
Figure 15 shows an example display a data analysis result
calculation used in the water pollution program. The
figure shows the type of water pollution. It is obtained by
first inputting the item value, and the program performs

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Figure 16 The infectious disease window

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Figure 16 shows the website of water pollution treatment
(infectious disease). From these, the application
automatically opens the website for each kind of pollution
from the button Goto. All the types of infectious disease
and the suitable methods for treatment are shown in the
figure 16. The information about the disease includes
(symptoms and treatments).

methods.

The proposed ontology is captures consensual

knowledge accepted by experts. These concepts are
used to propose a standard data interchange format
in order to facilitate and to improve the
interoperability between water resource management
and information systems.

The WATERDSS project aims at developing a DSS

which contributes to the improvement of decision
making in water resource management. The
developed WATERDSS includes: (1) simulation
modeling tools, (2) optimization algorithms of
decision trees, (3) database tools for data storage
and manipulation.

The WATERDSS is an online data (web) services

provide a computed water quality index and water
pollution test per water application unit employing
mathematical models.

WATERDSS is a water decision support system

Figure17 Main window for uploading text file

We can choose the Agent option to calculate the water
quality parameters (see figure 10) and water pollution
parameters (see figure 13). The input data from the button
upload file, make a processing in MySQL of the
parameters and finally show the results (see figure 17).
Finally the report of all information is sent to the water
stations suppliers.

6. CONCLUSION
This paper has the following contributions.
We have proposed an online application
(WATERDSS) for environmental crises, water
resource management systems incorporating data and
presentation services as well as dynamically selected
simulation models able to calculate water quality
status from real time and spatial data.

An analysis of freely available data mining tools is

made with the consideration of various aspects. The
analysis provides various benefits and explains how to
extract data with regard to functions.

The analysis took into account the support of various

database systems, statistical analysis capabilities,
visualization and other functionalities specific to the
respective software packages.

It provides a methodology to facilitate the decision

making process that ensures reliable and optimum
decision for water resources, by using ontology

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using emerging tools and technologies such as

(ecosystem modelling, documents, databases, GIS,
and data management software) that are integrated
together the water management planning.

WATERDSS is designed to help policy makers in

the field of water resource management define long
term strategies that help avoid water pollution
accidents, as well as to take quick actions in case of
pollution events.

It presents several strategies to manage water quality

and water pollution in order to protect human health
by building agent-based decision support system
used for drinking water supplied from drinking
water treatment plants, and to find information
about water resource management, available as an
on-line service.

The WATERDSS online services provide water

management inputs, such as the measured water
quality or the water pollution test per water
application unit. The time interval between
measuring parameters and sending of an e-mail
report to authorized persons is daily (reporting is
carried out once per day).

The results of the test are presented in GIS maps

(ArcGIS). The system automatically sends warnings
when water pollution levels are exceeded, using text
messages as email reports.

By using this approach, called HHC (Human Health

Center),

appropriate treatments from diseases

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caused as a result of water pollution accidents are
suggested.

We present the design of a set of an applications to

provide access to simulation and experimental
results on flow water quality conditions and to offer
sophisticated scenario testing capabilities for
research and drinking water treatment plant
planning, through the graphical user interface with
known controls.

We present an approach to developing an agentbased decision support system. The software agents
use DM methods for knowledge discovery, which
will be used as a foundation for decision making and
recommendation generation. The nature and
particularities of experimental data and expert
knowledge used in the proposed system have been
discussed.

Applications generally have a project focus and take

a limited view of the broader scale of water resource
management. To support the full range of WRM
(water resource management) activities, applications
could cover a greater scale, from individual water
supply infrastructure, to broader drinking waterwide issues.

Acknowledgments
This research is part of the Cyber Water project supported
by the UEFISCDI PN II, PCCA 1, and no. 47/2012.The
first author would like to acknowledge the financial
support of the Ph.D. studies by the Iraqi Ministry of
Higher Education and Scientific Research.

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