The role of RPA3 is to develop an integrated, risk-based decision support system to evaluate intervention strategies and provide decision makers with the required informationto operate a sustainable water system. The Centre for Water Systems, as a part of RPA3, carries out the research work in the following work packges:

1. Decision Support System
   To develop an integrated, risk-based decision support framework to support tactical (real-time) and strategic decision making.
2. Intervention Management
   To design and implement incident isolation and impact reducion strategies used within risk-based decision making.
3. Risk-Based Decision Making
   The aim is to develop a new general methodology for the management of risk and uncertanitiy associated with the decision making process for water supply networks.