Households consume a significant fraction of total potable water production. Strategies to
improve the efficiency of water use tend to emphasize technological interventions to reduce …

Determining the behavior of domestic water consumers can facilitate a more proactive
approach to water demand management, and serves as the foundation for the development …

Water authorities are dealing with the challenge of ensuring that there is enough water to
meet demand in the face of drought, population growth and predictions of reduced supply …

Understanding the nature of current household water use is important for forecasting future
demand and for designing effective water efficiency interventions. This paper argues that to …

The thematic title of this special themed section of ACME—“Scaling Down: Researching
household water practices”—is a corrective to the excessive emphasis on “scaling up” …

Many cities have been suffering from severe water deficiency in recent years due to rapid
urban expansion, socioeconomic development, population growth, and climate change …

More than one billion people will face water scarcity within the next ten years due to climate
change and unsustainable water usage, and this number is only expected to grow …

In light of the current and future threats to global water security the current research focuses
on trialing interventions to promote urban water conservation. We report an experimental …

Water shortage has become more frequent with occurrence of severe and frequent droughts
and increasing water demand due to many factors, eg, population growth and socio …

Previous research has failed to find a significant correlation between attitudes and water
consumption. We believe this result has occurred because the earlier studies measured …