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Conservation: Kudos and Complaints
Author(s) -
Bennett Richard E.
Publication year - 1983
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.1551-8833.1983.tb05183.x
Subject(s) - water consumption , wastewater , consumption (sociology) , energy conservation , water conservation , energy consumption , business , environmental science , environmental engineering , engineering , sociology , social science , ecology , biology , irrigation , electrical engineering
This reader writes in disagreement with Wendell Inhoffer, one of the participants in “Roundtable” (JOURNAL AWWA July 1983). Inhoffer stated, among other things, that water saving devices are expensive and have limited effect in drought areas. The author presents results of a USEPA report entitled “Effects of Water Conservation‐Induced Wastewater Flow Reduction” to dispute Inhoffer's views. This report indicates that the use of water saving devices decreases operations and maintenance for wastewater collection systems, decreases chemical use and energy consumption, and decreases mass loadings.