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Water Utility Operating Data: An Analysis
Author(s) -
Seidel Harris F.
Publication year - 1985
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.1551-8833.1985.tb05536.x
Subject(s) - per capita , agricultural economics , plateau (mathematics) , geography , environmental science , inflation (cosmology) , statistics , economics , mathematics , demography , population , physics , mathematical analysis , sociology , theoretical physics
The analyses of data gathered in AWWA surveys in 1976, 1978, and 1980 are simple—consisting primarily of means, medians, and frequency distributions for common water utility parameters. Water use in gallons per capita per day (litres per capita per day) was on a stable plateau from 1970 to 1980, with mean and median values of about 160 and 150 gpcd (606 and 568 L/d per capita), respectively. Analysis of rural water districts as a separate class was made possible for the first time by their increased participation in the 1980 survey. Their per‐capita water use was somewhat less than that of similar municipal utilities, whereas their rates were from one third higher to double, depending on the size of the rural district. For municipal utilities, water rates essentially doubled from 1970 to 1980, but this was still not enough to keep up with inflation during that decade.