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dc.contributor.authorBeal, Cara
dc.contributor.authorStewart, Rodney A
dc.contributor.authorSpinks, Anneliese
dc.contributor.authorFielding, Kelly
dc.contributor.editorH. Kroiss
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T13:02:55Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T13:02:55Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.date.modified2013-05-30T00:35:49Z
dc.identifier.issn1606-9749
dc.identifier.doi10.2166/ws.2011.088
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/42405
dc.description.abstractStudies have shown that householders' perceptions of their water use are often not well matched with their actual water use. There has been less research, however, investigating whether this bias is related to specific types of end use and/or specific types of socio-demographic and socio-demographic household profiles. A high resolution smart metering study producing a detailed end use event registry as well as psycho-social and socio-demographic surveys stock inventory audits and self-reported water diaries was completed for 250 households located in South-east Queensland, Australia. The study examined the contributions of end uses to total water use for each group identified as "low", "medium" or "high" water users. Analyses were conducted to examine the socio-demographics variables such as income, percentage of water efficient stock, family size and composition that characterise each self-identified water usage group. The paper concludes with a discussion of the general characteristics of groups that overestimate and underestimate their water use and how this knowledge can be used to inform demand management policy such as targeted community education programmes.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
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dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherIWA Publishing
dc.publisher.placeUnited Kingdom
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom527
dc.relation.ispartofpageto533
dc.relation.ispartofissue5
dc.relation.ispartofjournalWater Science and Technology
dc.relation.ispartofvolume11
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchEnvironmental management not elsewhere classified
dc.subject.fieldofresearchChemical engineering
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCivil engineering
dc.subject.fieldofresearchEnvironmental engineering
dc.subject.fieldofresearchEnvironmental engineering not elsewhere classified
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode410499
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4004
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4005
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4011
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode401199
dc.titleUsing smart meters to identify social and technological impacts on residential water consumption
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.facultyGriffith Sciences, Griffith School of Engineering
gro.rights.copyright© IWA Publishing 2011. This is the author-manuscript version of this paper. The definitive peer-reviewed and edited version of this article is published in Water Science and Technology: Water Supply, Vol 11 No 5 pp 527–533 and is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/ws.2011.088
gro.date.issued2011
gro.hasfulltextFull Text
gro.griffith.authorStewart, Rodney A.
gro.griffith.authorBeal, Cara D.


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