- Title
- Water use diaries: A tool for household water management
- Creator
- Graymore, Michelle; Harriden, Kate
- Date
- 2011
- Type
- Text; Conference paper
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/31639
- Identifier
- vital:4700
- Abstract
- In many countries, like Australia, where rainfall is highly variable and drought is commonplace, effective water demand management strategies are required to ensure water supply can meet demand into the future. However, demand management strategies often neglect to take into account the community’s behaviours and attitudes. Thus, they have mixed success in reducing household water use. New demand management strategies are needed. Strategies that enhance individual’s capacity to understand their own water use and the opportunities they have to reduce their use so they can become their own household water managers. This paper introduces the use of water use diaries as a tool for household water management by describing two case studies, one in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) and one in southwest Victoria (SW VIC), where water use diaries proved to be a useful tool for demand managemen
- Publisher
- Dead Sea, Jordan International Water Association
- Relation
- Paper presented at Efficient 2011: The 6th IWA Specialist Conference on Efficient Water Use and Management: Water Demand Management: Challenges and Opportunities
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Water demand management; Water use diary; Rural water use; Behaviour change
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