Water conservation: An adaptation of the cascade analysis for complex urban facilities.

This thesis targets the world most critical and scarce resource, water. As rural and urban population increase, demand for water also increases. It is essential that a water conservation strategy be adopted to ensure efficient use of water resources. Three major contributions towards such a strategy are presented in this thesis. The first contribution provides a green sustainability value index that can be used as a measure of a facility's sustainability. The second contribution generalizes a scheme for the application of water cascade analysis (WCA) at a hospital with approximate water saving of 50% at minimal cost. The third contribution illustrates the flexibility of applying WCA at complex urban facilities with unbiased identification of pinch point for reuse. The WCA algorithm used for assessment is proposed to replace the convoluted schemes in the literature that may have deterred practitioners from using it. --Leaf ii.