A Decision Making Approach For Water Transfer Systems by Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) and GIS

Abstract

AbstractWater transfer projects by open channels or under pressure are among the strategies used globally to address water shortages in arid and semi-arid regions. These plans must be submitted to economic, environmental, and social scrutiny in addition to technical reasons. The environmental-technical assessment of the plans and the ranking of their execution priority may be carried out in different ways. The ability to display and analyze data to aid in decision-making is one of the most significant applications and capabilities of GIS. The finest choice or alternatives might be shown after choosing from a variety of possibilities. Different approaches have been put out to analyze different project criteria, allowing for the integration of technical, environmental, social, and other elements. The analytic hierarchy process (AHP)is a strategic decision-making method that was utilized in this study to determine the optimal path for the water transfer pipeline. In an effort to determine the optimal path for the transmission line, questionnaires were created, weighted with these criteria based on the views of experts, and then the various layers of these criteria were compared to one another using the overlapping approach.