AWWA ACE70861

With the Triple Bottom Line (TBL) of sustainability, total water management efforts must analyze alternatives to address the potentially conflicting goals of economics (financial), environmental, and social issues. Goal programming is a technique which uses optimization methods to provide a means to solve a problem by striving towards multiple objectives simultaneously. This research seeks to apply an optimization framework to the integrated water supply planning process. The research has developed a methodology that can successfully generate a feasible set of alternative solutions while balancing all three goals of the TBL. Includes tables, figures.