Water infrastructure is a collective term for the interconnected network of physical engineered assets dedicated to the collection, storage, treatment, conveyance, distribution and disposal of water for municipal, industrial, agricultural and environmental purposes
[1]. Its constituent facilities include raw water intake structures, water treatment plants, storage reservoirs, pumping stations, pressurised water supply pipe networks, sanitary sewer collection pipelines and wastewater treatment facilities
[2]. This concept refers exclusively to physical hardware systems and built assets. Institutional management mechanisms, regulatory policy frameworks, water resource allocation rules and pricing mechanisms are not components of the water infrastructure definition itself, although they interact with and govern the operation of these physical assets
[3].
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