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Hiwa Farughi

Hiwa Farughi

Academic rank: Professor
ORCID: 0000-0001-9745-9691
Education: PhD.
ScopusId: 54789623500
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Faculty: Faculty of Engineering
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Phone: 08733660073

Research

Title
Sustainable surface water management and wastewater treatment plant location (a case study of Urmia Lake)
Type
JournalPaper
Keywords
Water resources management; Sustainable development; Wastewater treatment plant; Epsilon-constraint method; Urmia Lake
Year
2020
Journal International Journal of Engineering
DOI
Researchers Aziz Azizifard ، Jamal Arkat ، Hiwa Farughi

Abstract

The conservation of lakes is an essential issue in sustainable development. Disruption of ecological balance, destruction of biodiversity and vegetation, desertification, and storm surges are the results of lakes drying up. The purpose of this paper is to introduce an integrated bi-objective sustainable water resource management model. The first objective function deals with economically optimal allocation of water to the residential, industrial, and agricultural sectors. For compliance with the requirements of sustainable development, the second objective is to maximize the amount of water allocated to the environment. For proper utilization and reuse of water resources, the location of urban wastewater treatment plants is also considered in the problem. The model is solved with data from the most important watershed in Iran, Urmia Lake. Natural and unnatural factors have dramatically reduced the amount of water intake and balance over the past two decades. The epsilon constraint is used for solving the case study model. The results show that the model can satisfy the demand of sectors, with 70 percent of the available resources. Using this model, on the one hand, can meet the demands of the consumer sectors, and on the other hand, it can help revitalize Lake Urmia and the ecosystem of the river in its basin.