Journal article
Residential Water Consumption Modeling in the Integrated Urban Metabolism Analysis Tool (IUMAT)
Resources, conservation and recycling, v 131
Apr 2018
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Abstract
•A method for predicting daily and annual residential water use is introduced.•Water billing structure mainly impacts the outdoor water consumption.•Household size and efficiency of appliances are the main indicators of indoor use.•Climate variables and landscape parameters are the main indicators of outdoor use.
This paper details a method for residential water consumption modeling within the Integrated Urban Metabolism Analysis Tool (IUMAT), a computational modeling platform for evaluating environmental performance of urban communities under alternative growth scenarios. A bottom-up approach is introduced to generate end-use indoor and outdoor water profiles by applying GLM and Ridge regression methods to Residential End Uses of Water, Version 2 (REU II-2016) dataset and investigating the influence of demographic and climate factors, as well as utility rate structures on patterns of consumption. The data is collected from 2010 through 2013 by nine utilities that operate in North America on 771 and 838 single family units for indoor and outdoor water use respectively. Potential advances to surveying methods as well as the need for tools that allow simultaneous, isolated assessment of educational and technological conservation measures are explained.
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- Title
- Residential Water Consumption Modeling in the Integrated Urban Metabolism Analysis Tool (IUMAT)
- Creators
- Nariman Mostafavi - Drexel UniversityHamid Reza Shojaei - Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst 1126 Lederle Graduate Research Tower (LGRT), 01003, United StatesArash Beheshtian - Cornell UniversitySimi Hoque - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- Resources, conservation and recycling, v 131
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000426411700005
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85039749676
- Other Identifier
- 991019167578904721
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- Web of Science research areas
- Engineering, Environmental
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