Seismic resilience index of water distribution networks considering its dependence on other infrastructures using Belief function

Abstract Water, as one of the most vital human needs, has always been one of the major challenges facing crisis managers in all past natural or man-made disasters. In some past disasters, it is observed that the performance of the water distribution networks disrupted due to the dependence of the water infrastructure on other infrastructures. People's lives have affected by various disasters in the past and city managers should plan to build resilient communities to reduce human and financial losses. The main goal of this article is to present the resilience indices of the water infrastructure in an urban area after earthquakes, taking into account its dependence on electricity, transportation and telecommunication infrastructures using Belief function otherwise known as the Dempster- Shafer theory of evidence; also, the uncertainty intervals are calculated and some technical and management strategies to increase the resilience of the water distribution networks based on the calculated indices have presented.