scholarly journals The Impact of Demographic Factors, Beliefs, and Social Influences on Residential Water Consumption and Implications for Non-Price Policies in Urban India

Water ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 844 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Ramsey ◽  
Emily Berglund ◽  
Rohit Goyal
Keyword(s):  
Water Consumption ◽  
Social Influences ◽  
Demographic Factors ◽  
Urban India ◽  
Residential Water Consumption ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Residential Water ◽  
Price Policies

The Effectiveness of Urban Irrigation Day Restrictions in California

2019 ◽  
Vol 05 (03) ◽  
pp. 1950001
Author(s):  
Hanna Hayden ◽  
Tsvetan Tsvetanov
Keyword(s):  
Water Consumption ◽  
Marginal Effect ◽  
Urban Water ◽  
Monthly Data ◽  
Residential Water Use ◽  
Irrigation Policy ◽  
Residential Water Consumption ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Substantial Heterogeneity ◽  
Residential Water

We analyze the impact of restricting outdoor irrigation using monthly data from 408 urban water suppliers in California during the final years of the 2012–2017 drought. Our estimates suggest that assigning an additional no-irrigation day per week leads to a decrease in average monthly residential water consumption by approximately 0.8 gallons per capita-day. There is substantial heterogeneity in this impact. First, the marginal effect of a stricter irrigation policy varies depending on the existing level of outdoor watering restrictions — while initial restrictions lead to considerable conservation gains, tightening these measures further does not bring additional gains unless 6 weekly no-irrigation days are implemented. Furthermore, the policy is more effective in areas where residential water use represents a larger share of total urban water consumption and areas which perform better at reaching the 25% state conservation target.

scholarly journals The Effect of Social Behavior on Residential Water Consumption

Water ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 1184
Author(s):  
Daniel Morales Martínez ◽  
Alexandre Gori Maia
Keyword(s):  
Water Consumption ◽  
Spatial Dependence ◽  
Regression Models ◽  
Innovative Strategy ◽  
Peer Effect ◽  
Household Level ◽  
Level Data ◽  
Household Water ◽  
Residential Water Consumption ◽  
Residential Water

We analyze how residential water consumption is influenced by the consumption of households belonging to the same social group (peer effect). Analyses are based on household-level data provided by the Brazilian Household Budget Survey and use an innovative strategy that estimates the spatial dependence of water consumption while simultaneously controlling for potential sources of sample selectivity and endogeneity. The estimates of our quantile regression models highlight that, conditional on household characteristics, the greater the household water consumption, the greater the peer effect. In other words, the overconsumption of residential water seems to be influenced mainly by the behavior of social peers.

scholarly journals Forecasting Residential Water Consumption in California: Rethinking Model Selection

2020 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Buck ◽  
Maximilian Auffhammer ◽  
Hilary Soldati ◽  
David Sunding
Keyword(s):  
Model Selection ◽  
Water Consumption ◽  
Residential Water Consumption ◽  
Residential Water

The role of climate variability in convergence of residential water consumption across Chilean localities

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guillermo Ignacio Acuña ◽  
Cristián Echeverría ◽  
Alex Godoy ◽  
Felipe Vásquez
Keyword(s):  
Climate Variability ◽  
Water Consumption ◽  
Residential Water Consumption ◽  
Residential Water
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