Improving Management in Urban Water Supply provides the main methods and approaches to optimize and improve the management of urban water supplies. This is an important contemporary worldwide issue, especially in the developing countries; where, scientific approaches to management and decision making would require further extensions and encouragements. The book presents a wide spectrum of interdisciplinary studies, including theories and practices; systemic views and analyses; engineering and management; development and other related indices; decision making approaches; strategic planning; taxonomy and ranking; hydraulic computations; optimization and financial considerations; hygiene; quality control; case studies and other relevant factors and criteria.