Designing cost effective water demand management programs in Australia

White, Saxon William; Fane, SA

doi:10.2166/wst.2002.0683

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“…More recently, utilities have become interested in demand side management and water efficiency in an attempt to delay expensive capital investments for supply options [29,30]. Just as in the electricity industry, where "least cost planning" and "integrated resource planning" were developed to compare energy conservation to increased supply, so too have these principles been emerging as priorities and are now widely applied the water sector [10].…”

Section: A Brief History Of Meteringmentioning

confidence: 99%

Intelligent Metering for Urban Water: A Review

Boyle

Giurco

Mukheibir

et al. 2013

Water

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This paper reviews the drivers, development and global deployment of intelligent water metering in the urban context. Recognising that intelligent metering (or smart metering) has the potential to revolutionise customer engagement and management of urban water by utilities, this paper provides a summary of the knowledge-base for researchers and industry practitioners to ensure that the technology fosters sustainable urban water management. To date, roll-outs of intelligent metering have been driven by the desire for increased data regarding time of use and end-use (such as use by shower, toilet, garden, etc.) as well as by the ability of the technology to reduce labour costs for meter reading. Technology development in the water sector generally lags that seen in the electricity sector. In the coming decade, the deployment of intelligent water metering will transition from being predominantly "pilot or demonstration scale" with the occasional city-wide roll-out, to broader mainstream implementation. This means that issues which have hitherto received little focus must now be addressed, namely: the role of real-time data in customer engagement and demand management; data ownership, sharing and privacy; technical data management and infrastructure security, utility workforce skills; and costs and benefits of implementation.

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Section: A Brief History Of Meteringmentioning

confidence: 99%

Intelligent Metering for Urban Water: A Review

Boyle

Giurco

Mukheibir

et al. 2013

Water

186

129

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“…Numerous studies by the European Environmental Agency (EEA) have proven that price signals (economic incentive) have a significant impact on water use in households. Indeed, water consumption generally correlates negatively with water prices [60]. For example, when the Hungarian government progressively increased water prices (from 10 to 140 HUF), it led to a decline in the country's water consumption from 160 to less than 100 L/person/day over a ten-year period [39].…”

Section: Economic Incentivesmentioning

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Socio-Technological Influences on Future Water Demands

Zadeh

Hunt

Rogers

2014

Water

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Abstract:The traditional water supply management approach focuses on (perceived) community requirements that must be met, but not on community demands, which are variable. Therefore a paradigm-shift is required to the way water is considered. In this paper two fundamental management measures to influence daily water demand and therefore conservation are considered: (1) Technological efficiency measures (i.e., via adopting water-saving devices); and (2) User behaviour (i.e., how users interact with and use the technologies). Through a newly developed futures framework, the individual and combined impact of these approaches within residential and office buildings are examined. Results show each in isolation has similar impacts (i.e., 55% reduction) on domestic water consumption per capita, although the ranges over which user behaviour can operate appears to be far more diverse. Most strikingly, when these measures are considered in combination, greater impact (i.e., 80% reduction) could be achieved. Conclusions are drawn as to how far water demand management, through a dual track approach, can go in terms of reducing indoor water consumption of both residential and office users within the UK. The paper provides philosophical arguments for what else is needed in order to secure sufficient, sustainable water supplies within a "liveable" future.

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“…In contrast, this paper focuses on the quantitative study comprehensively from both supply/demand side control measures. White and Fane (2002) however have prepared a comprehensive quantitative study almost similar to this study but the results are mostly from simulation basis. This paper conversely presented results based on the actual data gathered by various approaches.…”

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Evaluation of the Effects and the Programming of 'Water Conservation Plan' (WCP) for Total Water Resources Management in Tokyo

Nafisah

Matsushita

Okada

2011

J. of Wat. & Envir. Tech.

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In major cities, rapid urbanization due to population and economic growth generally cause increase in water demand. Furthermore, lifestyle change encourages per capita water consumption to increase. The government tends to have policies that support increasing capacity to response to rising demand but this requires huge funding and several other problems such as opposition by environmentalist. To overcome these problems, water demand should decrease especially by reducing per capita water consumption through water conservation. On such basis, this paper focuses on the evaluation of 'Water Conservation Plan' (WCP) implemented by Tokyo Metropolitan Government (TMG). Tokyo faced tight water resources problem during the high economic growth period around 1960s. However, by incorporating both supply and demand side control measures in WCP, Tokyo became advanced in water resources management and now has excess water supply to meet the demands. Tokyo managed to reduce the per capita water consumption to about 171 L/p/d or more in 30 years. But due to pushing-up factors, which contributed 89.5 L/p/d of increment, the actual reduction was equivalent to 81 L/p/d or 19% reduction rate. Total supply side measures are almost equal to demand side measures where the weightage is 44:56 respectively. Hence, the authors analyze the effects of WCP from the viewpoint of supply and demand side control.

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Designing cost effective water demand management programs in Australia

Cited by 42 publications

References 6 publications

Intelligent Metering for Urban Water: A Review

Intelligent Metering for Urban Water: A Review

Socio-Technological Influences on Future Water Demands

Evaluation of the Effects and the Programming of 'Water Conservation Plan' (WCP) for Total Water Resources Management in Tokyo

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