{"id":1234,"date":"2013-11-20T11:32:12","date_gmt":"2013-11-20T08:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/?p=1234"},"modified":"2013-11-25T13:37:13","modified_gmt":"2013-11-25T10:37:13","slug":"battle-of-background-leakage-assessment-for-water-networks-bblawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/2013\/11\/20\/battle-of-background-leakage-assessment-for-water-networks-bblawn\/","title":{"rendered":"Battle of Background Leakage Assessment for Water Networks  &#8211; BBLAWN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the <a title=\"WDSA 2014\" href=\"http:\/\/www.water-system.org\/wdsa2014\/\">WDSA 2014 conference<\/a> a new &#8220;battle&#8221; will be held:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The\u00a0<strong>Battle of Background Leakage Assessment for Water Networks<\/strong>\u00a0is the fifth in a series of &#8220;Battle Competitions&#8221; dating back to the Battle of the Water Networks (BWN) in 1985 and more recently the Battle of the Water Sensor Networks (BWSN) in 2006; the Battle of the Water Calibration Networks (BWCN) in 2010 and the Battle of the Water Networks design (BWN-II) in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>The BBLAWN calls for teams\/individuals from academia, consulting firms, and utilities to propose<strong>\u00a0a design methodology for reducing water losses due to background leakages and apply it to a real water distribution system<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The results of the BBLAWN will be presented at a special session of the WDSA 2014 Conference in Bari.<\/p>\n<p>Outcomes and results of the competition will be summarized in a manuscript to be submitted to the Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management Division, ASCE.<\/p>\n<p>The team providing the best solution will be awarded with an\u00a0<strong>iPad mini<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Battle page:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.water-system.org\/wdsa2014\/?q=content\/battle-water-networks\">http:\/\/www.water-system.org\/wdsa2014\/?q=content\/battle-water-networks<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Make sure you follow the updates on the battle page!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the WDSA 2014 conference a new &#8220;battle&#8221; will be held: The\u00a0Battle of Background Leakage Assessment for Water Networks\u00a0is the fifth in a series of &#8220;Battle Competitions&#8221; dating back to the Battle of the Water Networks (BWN) in 1985 and &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/2013\/11\/20\/battle-of-background-leakage-assessment-for-water-networks-bblawn\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Battle of Background Leakage Assessment for Water Networks  &#8211; BBLAWN<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,6,5],"tags":[186,187,78,185],"class_list":["post-1234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-events","category-papers-research","tag-battle","tag-bblawn","tag-wdsa","tag-wdsa-2014"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1234"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1239,"href":"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234\/revisions\/1239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}