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COST OF PROVIDING WATER FOR PROTECTION
Author(s) -
Cote Donald R.,
Goodman Alvin S.
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
journal ‐ american water works association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1551-8833
pISSN - 0003-150X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1551-8833.1970.tb03932.x
Subject(s) - environmental science , water consumption , consumption (sociology) , total cost , distribution (mathematics) , fire protection , natural resource economics , business , water resource management , mathematics , economics , engineering , civil engineering , social science , sociology , mathematical analysis , accounting
Water for fire protection usually amounts to less than one per cent of the total water consumption in a given community. The demand for this water, however, occurs at relatively short time periods and high rates. An estimate of the portion of the total cost of a distribution system attributable to fire protection will be useful to operators.