Event Description
Juneseok
Lee, Ph.D., P.E.
California Water Service Co. Chair Professor and
Associate Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering
San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
Critical Emerging
Issues in Drinking Water Infrastructure
This
presentation focuses on three critical issues currently facing the nation’s
drinking water infrastructure:
i) problems
with premise plumbing and service lines, ii) the need to balance water
conservation and demand, and iii) the lack of adequate water utility
performance metrics.
We will begin by
considering water quality issues that affect premise plumbing, service lines,
and municipal water distribution systems.
As shown by the recent problems experienced in Flint, Michigan, it is
essential to ensure that service lines on private property are maintained to a
high level to protect public health.
The
speaker, who is a co-PI for a major grant awarded as part of the EPA’s National
Priorities:
Impacts of Water
Conservation on Water Quality in Premise Plumbing and Water Distribution
Systems program, will explain the current status of research in this area.
Water conservation is a major issue in
California, and he will also discuss his research on the impact of water
metering on residential household consumption in the state.
Panel data were studied for two types of
single-family residences:
those being
metered for the first time and those already metered.
A statistical analysis of residential water
demand in Low-Income Rate Assistance (LIRA) Program will also be
presented.
Last but not least, a cutting
edge methodology for measuring the performance of water utilities based on two
stage Delta Envelopment Analysis (DEA) applied to individual districts of a
Californian water utility will be explained.
All of those interested in the problems currently affecting our drinking
water supplies, many of which parallel those facing other public utilities,
should find the presentation useful.
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