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Article history: This paper aims to develop a methodology to support the sustainable management of Urban Drainage
Received 20 May 2011 Systems (UDSs) in Algeria. This research is motivated by the various difficulties that the National Sani-
Received in revised form tation Office (ONA) has in managing this complex infrastructure. The method mainly consists of two
1 January 2012
approaches: the top-down approach and the bottom-up approach. The former facilitates the identifi-
Accepted 9 January 2012
Available online 3 March 2012
cation of factors related to a sustainable UDS, the development priorities and the criteria available to
managers. The latter assesses UDS performance using the weighted sum method to aggregate indicators
or criteria weighted using the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP). The method is demonstrated through
Keywords:
Urban drainage systems
its application to the UDS in the city of Jijel, Algeria.
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Indicators and sustainability criteria
Performance assessment
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Agenda 21 resolutions were an outcome of the United Nation’s score to each objective is presented. An example application is
Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED, 1992) shown on the UDS of Jijel, a city in north-eastern Algeria.
held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil indicated that the concept of
sustainability should be taken into consideration in urban water 2. Methodological approach
management. However, the detailed method of how to apply
sustainability to decision-making in this area is not explained. In The approach first requires the different themes concerning the
order to make the application of sustainability to urban water sustainable management of the system to be identified. The priority
management possible, local Agenda 21 programs were set up at objectives for the UDS are then set for each theme. Each objective is
national (MATE, 2002) and continental level across Africa (NEPAD, made up of a set of criteria, assessed using performance indicators.
2001). However, the process of translating national sustainability This top-down approach makes it easier to describe the selected
objectives into practical actions within specific projects remains objectives and to choose appropriate indicators.
challenging. In order to prepare for the discussions regarding the themes
Over the last few years, many studies have looked at the related to UDS sustainability, we first recall the concept of
methodology for assessing the level of service provided by an UDS. sustainability including urban water management: a sustainable
Most of these studies have focused on developing indicators to urban water system must provide the services required from a long-
measure the performance of wastewater treatment plants (Lundin term perspective whilst protecting human health and the environ-
and Morrison, 2002; Quadros et al., 2010) or wastewater treatment ment, with the minimum use of rare resources (Lundin, 1999). In
systems (Balkema et al., 2002). Others studied the performance in order to evaluate UDS sustainability we must first answer the
terms of service provided (Kolsky and Butler, 2002; Geerse and following questions:
Lobbrecht, 2002; Foxon et al., 2002; Matos et al., 2003; Guérin-
Schneider, 2001). What are the system boundaries and available data for the UDS
Some studies take a more pragmatic approach to assess the under consideration?
sustainability of storm drainage networks, in particular by How can useful indicators and sustainability criteria for deci-
measuring performance in comparison to alternative techniques sion support be identified?
(such as retention and/or infiltration systems) (Ellis et al., 2004; How can the raw data collected in the system be translated into
Barraud et al., 1998; Dechesne et al., 2004; Moura et al., 2006, a performance score which can be used later for decision
2010). Most of these studies focus on the qualitative definition of support?
indicators in the design phase but not on their quantitative
assessment. Others looked at decision support tools. These fall into These three questions are explored in the following subsections
two main categories: respectively.
The proposed methodology for assessing UDS sustainability is
At structural level: an overall vision of the system is integrated structured in two main approaches: (i) Identification and descrip-
by focusing on a specific structure. Examples of this category tion of the UDS indicators (top-down approach) and (ii) assessment
include the ECOPLUIES project (Moura, 2008) dedicated to of the UDS’s performance (bottom-up approach). The top-down
infiltration structures, CARE-S (Saegrov, 2006) and INDIGAU approach is to define, in liaison with the system’s manager, the
(Le Gauffre et al., 2007) which focus more specifically on general requirements the UDS should meet in order to be consid-
performance indicators for the assets management of urban ered a sustainable system. These requirements are identified as
drainage networks; themes. These themes are then broken down into objectives.
At the level of urban water management systems: The DAY- Criteria are then selected to measure the extent to which these
WATER (Thévenot, 2008) and SUDS projects (Sheffield) objectives are met. Finally, the indicators are used to measure the
(Kennedy et al., 2007) focus on stormwater control techniques criteria. The bottom-up approach involves developing aggregation
at the source. The Triple Bottom Line (Taylor et al., 2006) and methods which make it possible to determine an overall score for
SWARD projects (Ashley et al., 2008) focus on the sustainable the whole system performance from the values obtained from the
management of drainage networks. indicators.
None of these projects correspond to the specific situation in 2.1. System boundaries and data
Algeria. However, each one contains relevant and useful elements.
Generally speaking sustainability studies contain finely-tuned Currently, cities function using many technical systems
indicators specifically adapted to a certain case. Therefore, locally (drinking water, urban drainage, roads etc.). These urban compo-
defined performance indicators are required for our specific case. It nents interact with each other in a very complex manner. In this
is important that the methodology is adapted to the national paper, we only focus on UDS with the aim of obtaining an overall
situation in order to convince the decision-makers that it should be vision of the system. The system includes not only the urban
implemented. In our case, national interests will strongly influence drainage network and its components (structures and urban
the methodology used. basins) but also the wastewater treatment plant, the technical and
Our study is based on the work of LGCIE (Toumi and Chocat, political organizations that manage the system, the discharge
2004; Chocat et al., 2007; Shuping et al., 2006; Granger et al., environment and the city with its associated technical and orga-
2010). It also forms part of a commitment to develop a methodo- nizational systems (Bonièrbale, 2004; Lundin, 1999).
logical tool to support the sustainable management of UDS in the Furthermore, decision support for UDS management requires
Algerian context. The Algerian UDS is characterized by a lack of several data sets (i.e. from the drainage network, the wastewater
precise data on the drainage network, hydraulic malfunctions treatment plant, the discharge environment etc.). It is therefore
(flooding, dry weather overflow of sanitary sewage), pollution of important when developing such a method to take into account
the natural environment, the comfort and safety of urban pop- data availability. This is particularly the case in Algeria as little data
ulations etc. This paper describes a decision support methodology is available due to the absence of a monitoring body. The ONA is
for sustainable UDS management. The method used to aggregate currently training its staff in this area and, in parallel, is using
the performance of indicators and assign an overall performance a group of foreign engineering companies to obtain data. This task
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also requires cooperation between various administrative depart- or more criteria are then given in order to assess the level at which
ments (various departments of the wilaya (Algerian administrative the corresponding function is considered to be fulfilled. These
province) including Hydraulics, Environment, Health, Population, criteria constitute both a link between the objectives and the
Urban Planning and Construction; local services; and the company performance indicators and the reference indices for improving
responsible for drinking water management (Algérienne Des Eaux)). UDS management (Foxon et al., 2002).
The summary of the themes, objectives and criteria drawn up by
the LGCIE (Laboratory of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
2.2. Identification of indicators and sustainability criteria
France), the LRHAE (Laboratory of Applied Hydraulics and the
Environment, Algeria) and ONA managers in the city of Jijel,
UDS sustainability criteria and indicators were identified,
(Algeria) is shown in Fig. 1. A set of criteria has been identified
inspired by the research dealing with the issue of UDS management
(Shuping et al., 2006) in order to help select the most relevant
in Algeria (Benayada and Kettab, 2005; Cherrared et al., 2007;
indicators. The performance indicators associated with the criteria
Kettab et al., 2008; Toumi and Chocat, 2004). Recent government
are not presented in this study.
directives on integrating sustainable development into project
management (C.N.E.S., 2000, 2007) and the research literature on
achieving sustainability and decision support also formed the basis 2.3. Performance assessment
for this paper. Defining sustainability requires the analysis of all the
different aspects of a UDS. Hence a descriptive approach is imple- The aim of our methodology is to provide a management chart
mented which describes the system in several parts: sanitary, flood to support the decision-making process. When doing this, we face
protection, environmental, economic and service management. two contradictory requirements:
Fig. 1 summarizes the selected themes used in this approach.
These themes make it easier for the service manager to identify the To not lose sight of the multi-dimensional nature of
levers for a sustainable UDS management. Each theme requires sustainability;
critical analysis and a detailed description. This analysis takes into To provide an overall vision of the service provided by the
account both UDS operations and the resources available to the system.
Algerian management services. The theme is then broken down
further. Each theme is associated with a series of objectives. An We used the method of partial aggregation which aggregates
objective represents a priority in terms of the system manager’s the indicators into criteria and then the criteria into the perfor-
operational requirements. Each objective corresponds to a basic mance assessment of objectives. The multi-dimensional nature of
function of the UDS. It can either be set for a physical phenomenon the assessment is preserved at the objective level.
or related to activities or organizations. Under each objective, one The main procedure of the method is given as follows:
Step 1: to assign each indicator a value that contributes to the Pairwise comparison (Limayem and Yannou, 2004);
criterion; Weighted sum (Roy and Bouyssou, 1993);
Step 2: to aggregate the indicators for each criterion in order to Multi-Attribute Unity Theory (MAUT) developed by Keeney
measure the overall performance of the criterion; and Raiffa in 1976 (Bryhn et al., 2009);
Step 3: to aggregate the criteria to measure the level at which Or other mathematical functions such as that developed by
the objectives are met; Nassar et al. (2003), etc.
Step 4: to assess the level of satisfaction with regard to
a specific theme using the assessment results for each The weighted sum method is used for its clarity and simplicity. It
objective. is a widely used method amongst the aforementioned techniques
(Ben Mena, 2000). The main drawbacks of this method are: I) the
We have maintained a multi-criteria assessment for the last step possible compensation between indicator scores in some situations
but have chosen to use an aggregation procedure for the second and II) its high sensitivity to changes in scale. The compensation is
and third steps. This method requires a common scale for assessing acceptable as the aggregation is implemented between elements of
the criteria and objectives in order to then manipulate them using the same nature (belonging to the same objective). The second
simple operators (sums, averages, etc.). It is therefore important to drawback is reduced when the same scale is used to assess all the
first transform the estimated value for each indictor (indicator scores to be aggregated, as is the case here. The performance of
status) in order to give it a score on a standardized performance criterion Cj is assessed using the following equation:
scale.
X
n
PCj ¼ PIji $wji (1)
2.3.1. Performance scale
i¼1
The performance assessment starts by converting the values of
indicators to performance values in certain scale. The scale should where: PCj: performance value of criterion Cj; n: the number of
be defined finite, quantitative and scalar. The scale from 0 to 1 has indicators considered in criterion Cj; PIji: performance value of
been chosen in our case with 1 representing the best performance indicator Ii in criterion Cj; wji: value of weight factor for indicator Ii
and 0 representing the worst. In order to transform the initial in criterion Cj.
measurement of indicators into scores between 0 and 1, perfor- The aggregation approach is similarly implemented for the
mance functions should be built first using standards and, where objective assessments.
these are not available, the ONA experts’ recommendations.
Fig. 2 shows an example of the performance function for the TSS 2.3.3. Weighting method
(Total Suspended Solids) indicator to assess the quality of the In this study, the weight was calculated using the AHP method.
discharge environment according to the SEQ-eau (Water Quality AHP is a multi-criteria decision support method which allows
Assessment System) (Babut et al., 2003). This performance function decision-makers to specify the relative importance of different
corresponds to one of the indicators in criterion C4 of objective O1 elements. In the case of a complex problem such as our case study,
(Fig. 1). When the concentration of TSS is less than or equal to the method is applied in a hierarchical manner from the indicator
50 mg/l the performance values vary linearly between 0.6 and 1; level up to the objectives level.
when the TSS is above the threshold of 150 mg/l, the performance is The AHP method is based on pairwise comparisons of judgment.
zero. Performance functions of this type were built for each It integrates the importance of the criteria and the indicators into
indicator. one overall score for the objective. Although AHP method is widely
used (Ramanathan, 2001; Herath, 2004; Ugwu et al., 2006; Ugwu
2.3.2. Selected aggregation method and Haupt, 2007; Hajkowicz, 2008), it has also been criticized
The most frequently applied aggregation methods include: (Al-Harbi, 2001). The main criticisms are:
complete, partial and local aggregation (Roy and Bouyssou, 1993;
Ben Mena, 2000). Complete aggregation is used in our case study The addition of new indicators can change the ranking of
based on the single criterion. Complete aggregation seems the most existing indicators;
appropriate method for aggregating all the indicators correspond- The weights are calculated without taking into account varia-
ing to one common criterion. This corresponds to the context of our tions in the scale of the indicators.
study and the ranking of the criteria and objectives developed
(Fig. 1). Furthermore, this choice does not compromise the multi- However, according to the conclusions of previous studies
criteria nature of the overall assessment as the scores assigned to (Harker and Vargas, 1987; Pérez, 1995; Al-Harbi, 2001), and given
each objective are still available. There are a wide variety of the precautions that are taken to overcome the drawbacks (same
complete aggregation methods, such as: scalar scale for all assessments) this method is well adapted to our
objectives.
The procedure for the AHP method is summarized as follows:
Table 1 Table 3
Pairwise comparison for preferences in AHP (Al-Harbi, 2001). Average daily values for the pollution indicators in the receiving water (ONA, 2009).
Table 2
Random Index (RI) values (Al-Harbi, 2001).
Matrix size 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
RI 0.00 0.00 0.58 0.90 1.12 1.24 1.32 1.41 1.45 1.49 1.51 1.53 1.56 1.57 1.59
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data is established prior to implementing the methodology in studied objective matrices are acceptable as their consistency ratios
order to ensure its effectiveness. However, due to the lack of are less than 0.1 (Table 4).
data, the data actually available has been used to explain the As can be seen in Fig. 5, the criterion C3 shows good perfor-
methodology. mance (PC3 ¼ 0.719), while all the other criteria show relatively
The performance functions established are used to convert poor performances (PC1 ¼ 0.427; PC2 ¼ 0.294; PC6 ¼ 0.229;
concentration values into scores between 0 and 1 (see Fig. 2). This PC4 ¼ 0.220 and PC5 ¼ 0.159). As a result, the overall performance
operation assigns a score to each indicator (Fig. 3). For the pairwise score for objective O1 is quite low: PO1 ¼ 0.357. Therefore, ONA
comparison phase the degree of toxicity of the parameters is taken managers should undertake measures to improve the water quality
into account. The performance indicator scores are aggregated of the receiving water. For example, they could start to reduce the
using Eq. (1) with corresponding weight values (Fig. 4). The judg- discharged pollutant load and increase the proportion of the
ments of preference assigned to the criteria matrices and the wastewater network connected to WWTP.
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