A mixed-integer optimization model for water sector planning and policy making in arid regions

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• policy making 70%
• arid region 66%
• planning 39%
• desalination 27%
• reverse osmosis 26%
• water 19%
• infrastructure planning 17%
• desalination plant 15%
• environmental cost 15%
• carbon footprint 15%
• linear programing 14%
• semiarid region 13%
• water resources management 12%
• brine 11%
• water management 11%
• water supply 10%
• decision 8%
• economics 7%
• need 6%
• modeling 5%

Social Sciences

• optimization model 100%
• water 50%
• Persian Gulf 45%
• planning 38%
• water management 28%
• Integrated water resources management 21%
• management planning 17%
• United Arab Emirates 14%
• driver 10%
• programming 9%
• infrastructure 8%
• costs 7%
• economics 5%