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A reconsideration of the ‘requirement approach’ to residential water use forecasting
Author(s) -
Darr Peretz,
Feldman Stephen L.,
Kamen Charles S.
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
water resources research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.863
H-Index - 217
eISSN - 1944-7973
pISSN - 0043-1397
DOI - 10.1029/wr011i006p01019
Subject(s) - arid , water consumption , environmental science , consumption (sociology) , water use , population , water resource management , hydrology (agriculture) , engineering , environmental health , geology , medicine , paleontology , social science , ecology , sociology , biology , geotechnical engineering
The ‘requirement approach’ in which only population parameters and average consumption figures are used for forecasting water use has been refuted by a number of authors. In the extremely arid environment of the Israeli desert town of Eilat, variations in the socioeconomic characteristics which were predictors of residential water use for major urban areas of Israel were not associated with variations in residential water consumption. Only technical water‐using appliance specifications were found to be correlates. It can be surmised that the tool more apt to be of aid in forecasting water use in such an extreme environment is the requirement approach.