The water supply facilities of Korea have achieved a rapid growth, along with the other social infrastructures consisting a city, due to the phenomenon of urbanization according to economic development. Meanwhile, the level of water supply service demanded by consumer is also steadily getting higher in keeping with economic growth. However, as an adverse effect of rapid growth, the quantity of aged water supply pipes are increasing rapidly, Bursts caused by pipe aging brought about an enormous economic loss of about 6,161 billion won as of 2019. These problems are not only worsening water supply management, also increasing the regional gap in water supply services. The purpose of this study is to classify hazard evaluation indicators and to rank the water distribution network hazard by cluster using the TOPSIS method. In conclusion, in this study, the entropy-based multi-criteria decision-making methods was applied to rank the hazard management of the water distribution network, and the hazard management ranking for each cluster according to the water supply conditions of the county-level municipalities was determined according to the evaluation indicators of water outage, water leakage, and pipe aging. As such, the hazard ranking method proposed in this study can consider various factors that can impede the tap water supply service in the water distribution network from a macroscopic point of view, and it can be reflected in evaluating the degree of hazard management of the water distribution network from a preventive point of view. Also, it can be utilized in the implementation of the maintenance plan and water distribution network management project considering the equity of water supply service and the stability of service supply.

For the asset management of a water pipe network, it would be necessary to understand the extent of the maintenance cost required for the water pipe network for the future. This study would develop a method to draw the optimum cost required for the maintenance of the water pipe network in waterworks facilities to maintain the aim revenue water ratio and to achieve the target revenue water ratio, considering the water service providers’ waterworks condition and revenue water ratio comprehensively. This study conducted a survey with 96 water service providers as of the early 2015 and developed models to estimate the optimum maintenance cost of the water pipe network, considering the characteristics of the water service providers. Since the correlation coefficient of all the developed models was higher than 0.95, it turned out that it had significant reliability, which was statistically significant. As a result of applying the developed models to the actual water service providers, it was drawn that increasing revenue water ratio to more than a certain level can reduce the maintenance cost of the water pipe network by a great deal. In other words, it is judged that it would be the most efficient to secure the reliability of waterworks management by increasing the short-term revenue water ratio to more than a certain level and gradually increase the revenue water ratio from the long-term perspective. It is expected that the proposed methodology proposed in this study and the results of the study will be used as a basic research for planning the maintenance of water pipe network or establishing a plan for waterworks facilities asset management.

상수도관의 파열은 과도한 압력, 노후화, 온도변화나 지진 등에 의한 지반이동에 의해 발생한다. 상수도관 파열이 대규모 단수, 싱크홀 등과 같은 더 심각한 피해 이어지지 않도록 신속하게 탐지 및 대응하는 것이 중요하다. 본 연구에서는 상수도관 파열 탐지를 위해 개선 Western Electric Company (WECO) 방법을 개발하였다. 개선 WECO 방법은 통계적공정관리기법 중 하나인 기존 WECO 방법에 임계치 조정자(w)를 추가하여 대상 네트워크에 적합한 이상탐지 의사결정을 할 수 있도록 했다. 개발된 개선 WECO 방법을 미국 텍사스 오스틴 관망에 적용 및 검증하였다. 상수도관 파열 발생 시 측정한 비정상데이터와 수요량 변동만 고려한 정상데이터를 이용하여 기존 및 개선 WECO 방법을 비교하였다. 최적 임계치 조정자 w값을 결정하기 위해 민감도 분석을 수행하였으며, 다양한 계측시간 간격 데이터(dt = 5, 10, 15분 등)의 영향도 분석하였다. 각 경우 별 탐지 성능은 탐지확률, 오경보확률, 평균탐지시간을 계산하여 비교하였다. 본 연구에서는 도출된 결과를 바탕으로 WECO 방법을 실제 상수도관 파열 탐지에 적용하기 위한 가이드라인을 제공한다.