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Metering for Demand Management: The Cambridge Experience
Author(s) -
Kay S. B.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
water and environment journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.437
H-Index - 37
eISSN - 1747-6593
pISSN - 1747-6585
DOI - 10.1111/j.1747-6593.1998.tb00138.x
Subject(s) - investment (military) , metre , agricultural economics , scale (ratio) , environmental science , business , engineering , operations management , geography , economics , political science , cartography , physics , astronomy , politics , law
In March 1991, the Cambridge Water Company imposed the first hosepipe ban in its 138‐year history. Peak summer flows had increased to the extent that large‐scale investment was required to meet customers’demands for water. At the time of the ban the company had over 5% of households registered to use garden sprinklers and 23% registered to use a hosepipe. The company decided to meter all sprinkler users, compulsorily, as part of its strategy to reduce peak summer demands. The meters were installed before the summer of 1993, and lower peak flows during the hot periods in 1995 and 1996 offer some evidence for the success of the strategy.