Water Utilities Challenges: A Bibliometric Analysis
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Ortega Ballesteros, Andrés; Manzano Agugliaro, Francisco Rogelio; Perea Moreno, Alberto JesusDate
2021-07-10Abstract
The water utilities are under big pressure to guarantee water access to their customers with the right level of service and quality due to challenges such as climate change, aging infrastructure, water scarcity, and growing populations, which put pressure on their operations. The scientific community has worked intensively over the last years to propose solutions and alternatives for the utilities to improve their operation and management in order to overcome these challenges. This paper aims to review scientific contributions to this field. The result shows increasing awareness from the scientific community in this topic which translates into a growing number of publications since the beginning of the current century. This paper analyzes the evolution of the publications, identifies the main countries and institutions working in this field and their scientific relationships over time. It also identifies the main keywords in the literature, which are grouped into three main topics: wat...
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urban water
water distribution network
water utility challenges
sustainability
bibliometric