The aim of the paper is to introduce the philosophy and mechanisms of technology assessment as a potential tools to contribute to the development of planning and decission making about technology and infrastructur of water resources. This is followed by a practical demonstration of the implementation of techniques for technology assessment focusing on a replacement model involving life cycle costing (LCC). Cost reduction in water resources planning is possible in any type of water production plant from relative reductions in personnel and other overhead costs. Increased costs also might be incurred due to water transportation and the type and size of production plants. Once the waterneeds of an area are established, the problem of meeting those needs becomes the trade-off issues and balancing the various factors to arrive at the most economic, technological, social and other arrangements. Other factors affecting the selection of an appropriate water supply system are overall cost and efficiency of the system overtime, relative costs of supplying, storing, distributing the produced water and the costs of disposing and treating the used water. This paper is presenting the replacement model analysis in calculating the economic type and total cost in term of net present value (NPV).


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    Title :

    Implementation of technology assessment investment techniques on water desalination


    Additional title:

    Einsatz der Technologiebeurteilung zur Investitionsabschätzung für die Wasserentsalzung


    Contributors:


    Publication date :

    1995


    Size :

    9 Seiten, 12 Bilder, 1 Tabelle, 5 Quellen




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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