A novel approach for estimating urban water end use characteristics of cities in the developing world
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Author(s)
Muniina, K
Maksimovic, C
Graham, N
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
The design of alternative urban water supply interventions for a community located in a low-income country requires detailed and precise knowledge of the nature, frequency and intensity of various characteristic water end-uses in the community. Without the availability of this characteristic water use information, high resolution metering experiments are the usually preferred methods to measure the water use volumes. However, in the developing world, these high resolution experiments are not an available option. Leaving the imprecise household interviewing process of data collection as the only option. This paper presents a novel methodology that improves and expands on the socially collected water uses data, through the use of a stochastic modelling process of the water use volumes to estimate the total monthly water use of the community. The methodology not only improves the estimates of water use volumes but also provides a mathematical modelling description of the household water uses in the community.
Date Issued
2016-12-07
Online Publication Date
2017-12-07T07:00:16Z
Date Acceptance
2016-10-20
ISSN
1573-062X
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Start Page
750
End Page
757
Journal / Book Title
Urban Water Journal
Volume
14
Issue
7
Copyright Statement
© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Urban Water Journal on 07 Dec 2016, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/1573062X.2016.1254253
Source Database
scopus
Subjects
Science & Technology
Physical Sciences
Water Resources
Water consumption & prediction
urban water management
modelling
developing countries
water end-use modelling
DEMANDS
SYSTEMS
AFRICA
CHINA
MODEL
Environmental Engineering
0406 Physical Geography And Environmental Geoscience
0905 Civil Engineering
1604 Human Geography
Publication Status
Published