Settlement development depends on many factors, including the availability of municipal infrastructure. Scientists find that only integrated municipal infrastructure planning and ...settlement-development planning create conditions for sustainable and economical urban development. This is not taken into account in spatial planning practise in Slovenia. This paper seeks a response to the research question: Based on what data, and based on what model can the capacity of the water supply system in Slovenia be assessed, which constitutes the expert basis for settlement development decision-making at the local level. To this end, we analysed the results of relevant existing research and devised an appropriate integrated and dynamic model for assessing the capacity of the water supply system, which was generated from a simulation of construction on vacant building land and relevant water requirements of new water consumers. In assessing the capacity of the public water supply system, the Aquis 7.0 Software was applied in accomplishing the hydraulic system validation. In line with the hydraulic system validation results, the respective measures are proposed, and the costs of necessary improvements of the existing water supply system or its upgrading are envisaged. Based on the results obtained, the settlement-development stages can be determined. The model for assessing the capacity of the water supply system was applied to the example of the Municipality of Kranj.
To this end, we analysed the results of relevant existing research and devised an appropriate integrated and dynamic model for assessing the capacity of the water supply system, which was generated ...from a simulation of construction on vacant building land and relevant water requirements of new water consumers. Based on what data and what model may already within the spatial planning process be assessed the capacity of the water supply system in Slovenia that is applied as expert basis for decision-making on settlement development at local level? In a dynamic water supply planning model applied in Dublin, Willuweit and O'Sullivan (2013) combined the urban water balance concepts with the land use dynamics model and the climate model, thus providing a platform for the long-term planning of urban drinking water supply and water demands. The tools can be used to generate a network of urban water supply systems for an area, taking into account the population change and land use data.
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