Chapter 6
Applications
This chapter is to help the readers appreciate the wide range of situations that the
concepts and tools presented in this book can be employed in order to get a better
insight into their functionings. Most of the examples given below are not real case
studies with valid data; however, they are mostly adapted from real situations. Furthermore, the exercise is not to present full-fledged cases but rather to link a number of
dots for a specific theme and give references for further studies. Finally, to show
the input data and the results of Sefficiency, two templates are available: (a) a free
MS-Excel tool at Haie (Sefficiency (Sustainable efficiency) of Water-Energy-Food
Entangled Systems 2016) as a supplementary document that has the equations and
a simple format to simulate various cases side by side, (b) Appendix B: Sefficiency
Template is the compact form used for this book.
Note In all the tables of this chapter, grey cells display calculated numbers and the
underlined numbers are the final solutions or values.
6.1 Water Saving Myth
There is a misconception between water supply/demand and water saving; often
thinking that decreasing water supply will save water for downstream users. This
may prove to be incorrect due to the law of water balance and the fact that water
outflows have two states (FIW2; Sect. 2.4). This myth can be shown through a simple
example using the concepts and symbols developed in this book.
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Applications
This chapter is to help the readers appreciate the wide range of situations that the
concepts and tools presented in this book can be employed in order to get a better
insight into their functionings. Most of the examples given below are not real case
studies with valid data; however, they are mostly adapted from real situations. Furthermore, the exercise is not to present full-fledged cases but rather to link a number of
dots for a specific theme and give references for further studies. Finally, to show
the input data and the results of Sefficiency, two templates are available: (a) a free
MS-Excel tool at Haie (Sefficiency (Sustainable efficiency) of Water-Energy-Food
Entangled Systems 2016) as a supplementary document that has the equations and
a simple format to simulate various cases side by side, (b) Appendix B: Sefficiency
Template is the compact form used for this book.
Note In all the tables of this chapter, grey cells display calculated numbers and the
underlined numbers are the final solutions or values.
6.1 Water Saving Myth
There is a misconception between water supply/demand and water saving; often
thinking that decreasing water supply will save water for downstream users. This
may prove to be incorrect due to the law of water balance and the fact that water
outflows have two states (FIW2; Sect. 2.4). This myth can be shown through a simple
example using the concepts and symbols developed in this book.
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license
to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
N. Haie, Transparent Water Management Theory,
Water Resources Development and Management,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-6284-6_6
91