Saving water at Cape Town schools by using smart metering and behavioral change

Visser, Martine; Booysen, M.J.; Brühl, Johanna; Berger, Kenneth J. E.

doi:10.1016/j.wre.2020.100175

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“…The entry of smart water sensors into the home is a challenge for intelligent water detection. At present, some studies only install smart sensors in some public areas such as schools Visser et al 2021). Most of them only use smart water meters to measure total water consumption (Cardell-Oliver et al 2016), and the recorded data is relatively simple.…”

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What roles do smart sensors play in citizens' water use? From the perspective of household water-saving

Tian

Chen

2021

Water Supply

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Rapid population growth has led to increasing demand for water resources. Studies have shown that the application of new technologies can effectively influence and promote citizens to save water. The application of smart water sensors can effectively monitor household water consumption and feedback the recorded data to citizens promptly, thereby influencing family members' water-saving attitudes and behaviours. For the widespread use of future water sensors in households, it can demonstrate its essential role in three aspects: water use information feedback to reduce water consumption, water information measurement helps to cultivate water conservation awareness, and water use information release as an effective means of behavioural intervention. This research provides some suggestions for the promotion and use of smart sensors in the home and points out the future research directions for the impact of water sensing on household water-saving behaviour.

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What roles do smart sensors play in citizens' water use? From the perspective of household water-saving

Tian

Chen

2021

Water Supply

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“…Recent studies performed the most comprehensive analysis of water usage and management within schools in the Western Cape (Visser et al 2021;Booysen et al 2019aBooysen et al , 2019b. This included investigating socio-economic effects, behavioural interventions and technical interventions.…”

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“…This paper describes the medium-and long-term effects of a campaign that was run at schools during 2017 and 2018 in the run-up to 'Day Zero' in Cape Town. The campaign had a behavioural and maintenance component (Booysen et al 2019b;Visser et al 2021). The objective of this study is to evaluate the long-term effects of technological intervention within schools in the Western Cape and to better define the effects of poverty on a school's water usage.…”

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Water scarcity and poverty: The lasting impact of a maintenance campaign at South African schools across the affluence divide

Booysen

Gerber

2021

Water Science and Technology

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Water features prominently in discussions on sustainability. The recent Cape Town ‘Day Zero’ drought heightened fears about global cities running dry as the climate changes. During that crisis a campaign was launched to save water at schools, consisting of a basic maintenance campaign and a behavioural campaign. The former was limited to easy fixes, and the latter comprised an information campaign and an information and competition campaign. The impacts of these were assessed immediately after the interventions. This paper revisits the maintenance results by assessing the difference in responses according to affluence levels of the schools, and by evaluating the impacts a year after the campaigns. We find that the poorer schools were not able to sustain the maintenance gains, especially at the primary schools.

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“…Digital water meters and Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) have grown in adoption across the water industry ( West Monroe, 2017 ) and provide capabilities to record water consumption data at the account level at medium (hourly) and high (sub-hourly) temporal resolution ( Nguyen, Stewart, Zhang, Sahin, Siriwardene, 2018 , Pesantez, Berglund, Kaza, 2020a ). Analysis of smart water meter data has contributed primarily to demand management, however, as part of conservation programs ( Visser et al., 2021 ), end use modeling ( Bethke et al., 2021 ), and leakage identification approaches ( Booysen et al., 2019 ). Further research is needed to fulfill the promise of digital water in improving the resilience and efficiency of managing infrastructure.…”

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Using a digital twin to explore water infrastructure impacts during the COVID-19 pandemic

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Alghamdi

Sabu

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Sustainable Cities and Society

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Saving water at Cape Town schools by using smart metering and behavioral change

Cited by 23 publications

References 51 publications

What roles do smart sensors play in citizens' water use? From the perspective of household water-saving

What roles do smart sensors play in citizens' water use? From the perspective of household water-saving

Water scarcity and poverty: The lasting impact of a maintenance campaign at South African schools across the affluence divide

Using a digital twin to explore water infrastructure impacts during the COVID-19 pandemic

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