Assessing the supply for a basic urban service demand-with a focus on water-energy management in Addis Ababa city

Bedassa Dessalegn Kitessa; Semu Moges Ayalew; Geremew Sahilu Gebrie; Solomon T/Mariam Teferi

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0249643

Assessing the supply for a basic urban service demand-with a focus on water-energy management in Addis Ababa city

PLoS One. 2021 Sep 7;16(9):e0249643. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0249643. eCollection 2021.

Authors

Bedassa Dessalegn Kitessa¹, Semu Moges Ayalew², Geremew Sahilu Gebrie¹, Solomon T/Mariam Teferi¹

Affiliations

¹ Addis Ababa Institute of Technology, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
² School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Connecticut, Mansfield, Connecticut, United State of America.

Abstract

The demand for water-energy (WE) should be addressed with their sustainable supply in the long-term planning. The total energy demand was estimated to be around 14,000000 and 53,000000 MWh for 2030 and 2050 years respectively. These years' predicted water demand was 0.4 and 0.7 billion-cubic-meter. Based on the estimated energy and water demand, sustainable supply through WE management were determined. In 2030 and 2050 the water supply-demand balance index is around 1, showed water demand will be met for respective years, whereas the energy supply-balance after the intervention become around 0.9 and 0.7. The study results clearly predicted future WE demand of Addis Ababa city and have been put their quantified supply suggestion.

MeSH terms

Cities
Conservation of Water Resources / methods*
Energy-Generating Resources*
Ethiopia
Humans
Models, Theoretical
Renewable Energy
Socioeconomic Factors
Sustainable Development
Water Supply*

Grants and funding

The author(s) received no specific funding for this work. Therefore, no funder has role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.