... sustainability goals. © Emerald Publishing Limited 2026 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Climate change Drinking-water infrastructure Project size (km) Ridge regression Support vector regression (SVR) Two-stage prediction Principal component analysis (PCA) Step-wise...

... (RSM), followed by experimental validation of the modified mixture. To further enhance the prediction of CS, ML algorithms like CatBoost, Gradient Boosting, Ridge Regression and XGBoost were employed. Furthermore, the evaluation of model performance was conducted employing various metrics, which...