Water storage cost analysis methods include

How much does water storage cost?

Looking at the global potential, the water storage cost with SPHS varies from 0.007 to 0.2 US$ m −3 of water stored (Fig. 2a). This large cost difference is due to the variation in topography and water availability.

What is data driven treatment cost analysis for water?

Data driven treatment cost analysis for water The two types of costs involved in the treatment of water are capital and operational costs. The section below discusses these costs in some detail, enlisting the major contributors for each technology type. Followed by this, we perform a rigorous data collection for costs in each category.

How are water budget closure analyses performed?

Water budget closure analyses were done using ground-based measurements in semi-arid watersheds using cosmic ray soil moisture sensing (Schreiner-McGraw et al., 2016) and in field-scale seasonal frozen conditions (Pan et al., 2017).

How do we assess non-use values of building water sector infrastructures?

Figure 2 highlights the lack of quanitatively assessing non-use values of building water sector infrastructures. In fact, the only widely applied analysis is the financially oriented market analysis, which assesses labour, manufacture and operational costs.

Why are hydrological data used to restrict the size of storage reservoirs?

The hydrological data were used to restrict the size of the storage reservoirs, according to water availability. This guarantees that there will be water available to fill up the storage reservoir without having a considerable impact on the overall river flow.

Can monetary valuation be used to assess water infrastructure projects?

While monetary valuation and CBA is not the only way to impact assess water infrastructure projects, this paper suggests developing the CBA to a more applicable and accessible decision support tool as the CBA and its incorporated total economic valuation provides an optimal framework to communicate impact in monetary units to decision makers.