EVALUATING THE PERSISTENCE OF RESIDENTIAL WATER CONSERVATION: A 1992–1997 PANEL STUDY OF A WATER UTILITY PROGRAM IN DELAWARE<sup>1</sup>

Wang, Young‐Doo; Song, Jae-Shuck; Byrne, John; Yun, Sun-Jin

doi:10.1111/j.1752-1688.1999.tb04213.x

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“…Marginal price can differ markedly for peak and off-peak periods as the marginal cost to supply the water increases during peak or drought periods. In the short-term, peak periods have greater negative price elasticity for water demand, but the reduction in water demand from price increases will adjust and demand will increase again in the long-term (Lyman 1992;Wang et al 1999). Water resource management strategies that previously relied on educational programs and outreach to promote conservation and sustainability began to turn to pricing as the key to decreasing residential demand (Nieswiadomy & Cobb 1993).…”

Section: Analytical Developmentsmentioning

confidence: 98%

Decadal review of residential water demand analysis from a practical perspective

Tanverakul

Lee

2016

Water Practice and Technology

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Residential water demand has been extensively studied over more than four decades, but as yet there is no consensus on the best or most appropriate model from a practical perspective. Conservation and sustainability programs with new metering incentives have increased the necessity for an easy to use forecasting model for water resource management based on a better understanding of the factors driving residential water demand. Analytical techniques have increased in complexity, advancing with new tools for computing and data collection such as GIS and remote sensing. This paper presents a decadal review of how the residential water demand analysis have evolved over time with changes in price policies, conservation attitudes, technological improvements, and other factors explaining water demand. This paper will help provide the knowledge base for the future studies and recommendations are made for addressing/bridging the gap between drinking water industry and research community.

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Section: Analytical Developmentsmentioning

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Decadal review of residential water demand analysis from a practical perspective

Tanverakul

Lee

2016

Water Practice and Technology

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“…As a result, it is usual to run them in parallel to efficiency programs so that their effectiveness can be maximised . Importantly, the effect of such programs has proved to be significant mainly in times of water scarcity and crisis but it usually diminishes within a year (Wang et al 1999; Alliance for Water Efficiency 2010).…”

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“…However, as the previous section also showed, the degree of response to restrictions may be affected by previous experience of drought and may also be relatively short-lived (Wang et al 1999). A particular challenge in modelling response to drought is therefore the development of indicators capable of distinguishing different program intensities and determining the longevity of demand reductions after restrictions are lifted (Mukheibir et al 2013).…”

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Domestic Water Demand During Droughts in Temperate Climates: Synthesising Evidence for an Integrated Framework

Manouseli

Anderson

Nagarajan

2017

Water Resour Manage

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In the upcoming years, as the population is growing and ageing, as lifestyle changes create the need for more water and as fewer people live in each household, the UK water sector will have to deal with challenges in the provision of adequate water services. Unless critical action is taken, every area in the UK may face a supplydemand gap by the 2080s. Extreme weather events and variations that alter drought and flood frequency add to these pressures and there is therefore a need to develop evidence-based drought scenarios models for water management purposes. However, little evidence is available about householders' response to drought and there are few if any studies that have synthesised this evidence. In response, this paper discusses the current empirical literature on the factors driving domestic water consumption under both 'normal' and drought conditions. The paper identifies the limited availability of evidence on the many different and evolving factors affecting domestic consumption under both 'normal' and drought conditions and stresses the need for the inclusion of inter and intra household factors as well as water use practices in future demand forecasting models. The paper then presents 'Water Cultures' as an integrative modelling framework to combine the limited evidence that is available on the interactions of social norms, practices and material cultures. This enables the paper both to capture both the uncertainty and heterogeneity of individual and/or household level variation and also outline the research gaps that need to be addressed.

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“…Following similar studies evaluating consumption habits over time using panel data (e.g., [4,9,33,34]) we ran separate fixed effects regressions, which control for time-invariant variables that may affect household consumption, such as number of residents, income, etc. The regressions were run according to Equation (1) below:…”

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Still Waters Run Deep: Comparing Assertive and Suggestive Language in Water Conservation Campaigns

Katz

Kronrod

Grinstein

et al. 2018

Water

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Abstract:The current work focuses on non-price policies to achieve residential water conservation, specifically on water conservation campaigns. The authors report the results of a large-scale longitudinal field experiment encouraging residential water conservation among 1500 households. The effectiveness of two commonly-used message phrasings is compared: an assertive and a suggestive message. Assertive messages employ a commanding tone, such as "You must conserve water", whereas suggestive messages employ a more gentle approach, as in "Please consider conserving water". Despite the ubiquitous use of assertive phrasing in pro-social messages, and previous research that suggests that, in some cases, assertive language can increase message compliance, the authors show here that the suggestive, gentler, message language can make a more accentuated change in residential water conservation behavior. This may stem from the status of water as a basic needs resource, which may reduce the appropriateness of freedom restricting language, such as an assertive tone.

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EVALUATING THE PERSISTENCE OF RESIDENTIAL WATER CONSERVATION: A 1992–1997 PANEL STUDY OF A WATER UTILITY PROGRAM IN DELAWARE¹

Cited by 25 publications

References 32 publications

Decadal review of residential water demand analysis from a practical perspective

Decadal review of residential water demand analysis from a practical perspective

Domestic Water Demand During Droughts in Temperate Climates: Synthesising Evidence for an Integrated Framework

Still Waters Run Deep: Comparing Assertive and Suggestive Language in Water Conservation Campaigns

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EVALUATING THE PERSISTENCE OF RESIDENTIAL WATER CONSERVATION: A 1992–1997 PANEL STUDY OF A WATER UTILITY PROGRAM IN DELAWARE1

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Decadal review of residential water demand analysis from a practical perspective

Decadal review of residential water demand analysis from a practical perspective

Domestic Water Demand During Droughts in Temperate Climates: Synthesising Evidence for an Integrated Framework

Still Waters Run Deep: Comparing Assertive and Suggestive Language in Water Conservation Campaigns

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