A Parametric Evaluation of Leakages in Water Distribution Networks

One of the main problems of water distribution systems is the management and the evaluation of water losses. At the Laboratory of Hydraulics and Maritime Constructions at the Università Politecnica delle Marche, experimental research on this topic was conducted to measure the water volume exiting from a known shape and size hole at fixed hydraulic conditions. The obtained results were also used as input data for the Evolutionary Polynomial Regression (EPR) analysis for the construction of prediction models that could be employed for the management of water leakages in pressurized networks.