Water Utilities Challenges: A Bibliometric Analysis
The water utilities are under big pressure to guarantee water access to their customers with the right level of service and quality due to challenges such as climate change, aging infrastructure, water scarcity, and growing populations, which put pressure on their operations. The scientific communit...
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| author | Ortega Ballesteros, Andrés Manzano Agugliaro, Francisco Perea Moreno, Alberto Jesus |
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| description | The water utilities are under big pressure to guarantee water access to their customers with the right level of service and quality due to challenges such as climate change, aging infrastructure, water scarcity, and growing populations, which put pressure on their operations. The scientific community has worked intensively over the last years to propose solutions and alternatives for the utilities to improve their operation and management in order to overcome these challenges. This paper aims to review scientific contributions to this field. The result shows increasing awareness from the scientific community in this topic which translates into a growing number of publications since the beginning of the current century. This paper analyzes the evolution of the publications, identifies the main countries and institutions working in this field and their scientific relationships over time. It also identifies the main keywords in the literature, which are grouped into three main topics: water quality, water management, and water optimization. The development of smart technologies is accelerating the scientific production towards the topic of water optimization, which is acquiring more importance over the last years. Future trends of research are related to identifying specific challenges per country and the specific solutions proposed by the scientific community to address them and its feasibility to be applied in other places |
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| spelling | oai:repositorio.ual.es:10835-120342023-04-12T19:30:01Z Water Utilities Challenges: A Bibliometric Analysis Ortega Ballesteros, Andrés Manzano Agugliaro, Francisco Perea Moreno, Alberto Jesus urban water water distribution network water utility challenges sustainability bibliometric The water utilities are under big pressure to guarantee water access to their customers with the right level of service and quality due to challenges such as climate change, aging infrastructure, water scarcity, and growing populations, which put pressure on their operations. The scientific community has worked intensively over the last years to propose solutions and alternatives for the utilities to improve their operation and management in order to overcome these challenges. This paper aims to review scientific contributions to this field. The result shows increasing awareness from the scientific community in this topic which translates into a growing number of publications since the beginning of the current century. This paper analyzes the evolution of the publications, identifies the main countries and institutions working in this field and their scientific relationships over time. It also identifies the main keywords in the literature, which are grouped into three main topics: water quality, water management, and water optimization. The development of smart technologies is accelerating the scientific production towards the topic of water optimization, which is acquiring more importance over the last years. Future trends of research are related to identifying specific challenges per country and the specific solutions proposed by the scientific community to address them and its feasibility to be applied in other places 2021-07-26T08:01:56Z 2021-07-26T08:01:56Z 2021-07-10 info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2071-1050 http://hdl.handle.net/10835/12034 https://doi.org/10.3390/su13147726 en https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/13/14/7726 Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess MDPI |
| spellingShingle | urban water water distribution network water utility challenges sustainability bibliometric Ortega Ballesteros, Andrés Manzano Agugliaro, Francisco Perea Moreno, Alberto Jesus Water Utilities Challenges: A Bibliometric Analysis |
| title | Water Utilities Challenges: A Bibliometric Analysis |
| title_full | Water Utilities Challenges: A Bibliometric Analysis |
| title_fullStr | Water Utilities Challenges: A Bibliometric Analysis |
| title_full_unstemmed | Water Utilities Challenges: A Bibliometric Analysis |
| title_short | Water Utilities Challenges: A Bibliometric Analysis |
| title_sort | water utilities challenges: a bibliometric analysis |
| topic | urban water water distribution network water utility challenges sustainability bibliometric |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/10835/12034 https://doi.org/10.3390/su13147726 |
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