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Water Distribution for Victims of Drought: The Case of the Brazilian Semi-arid Region

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Operations Management for Social Good (POMS 2018)

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This paper proposes a procedure and a computational tool for helping the decision-making process regarding the water supply for beneficiaries in regions affected by drought, considering the transport and routing of water distribution. The proposed procedure was applied to a real case scenario in the Brazilian semi-arid region.

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  1. Instituto Militar de Engenharia, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Yesus Emmanuel Medeiros Vieira, Renata Albergaria de Mello Bandeira, Luiz Antônio Silveira Lopes & Leandro de Oliveira Silva

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Correspondence to Renata Albergaria de Mello Bandeira .

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  1. Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Adriana Leiras

  2. Universidad Nacional de Colombia at Medellin (UNAL-Medellin), Medellín, Colombia

    Carlos Alberto González-Calderón

  3. Universidade Estadual Paulista at São José dos Campos (ICT-UNESP), São Paulo, Brazil

    Irineu de Brito Junior

  4. Universidad de Los Andes (UniAndes), Bogotá, Colombia

    Sebastián Villa

  5. Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil

    Hugo Tsugunobu Yoshida Yoshizaki

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Vieira, Y.E.M., de Mello Bandeira, R.A., Lopes, L.A.S., de Oliveira Silva, L. (2020). Water Distribution for Victims of Drought: The Case of the Brazilian Semi-arid Region. In: Leiras, A., González-Calderón, C., de Brito Junior, I., Villa, S., Yoshizaki, H. (eds) Operations Management for Social Good. POMS 2018. Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23816-2_25

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