From Users to Consumers: Water Politics in Nineteenth-Century London

Trentmann, Frank; Taylor, Vanessa

doi:10.5040/9781474215725-ch-003

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“…CCB is basically a conceptual approach to development focusing on understanding the obstacles that inhibit people and governments from realizing their development goals while enhancing the abilities that will allow them to achieve measurable and sustainable results [44]. A number of studies suggested that water use habits can be improved by educational campaigns and dissemination of knowledge in changing behaviour together with the effect of consumerism on water consumption through the daily routines and awareness of entitlement [13,45,46]. People can be informed of the water scarcity, its associated issues and any inappropriate water use habits/behaviours; then they can be guided through appropriate direction towards more efficient water consumption.…”

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An Analysis of Domestic Water Consumption in Jaipur, India

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Memon

Jain

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BJECC

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Aim: To explore the relation between water consumption and water use behaviour and attitudes, and devices applied in households in urban areas in India. Methodology and Study Site: This paper presents the results of a domestic water consumption survey carried out in Jaipur, India. A questionnaire containing over 60 questions was developed to collect information on households' characteristics (e.g. family size, household type, and number of children), indoor and outdoor water use activities and their respective frequencies and durations. Information was also gathered on the volume of water used in each of these activities. Over 90 households of different types (standalone houses and apartments in a university campus and Jaipur city) participated in the survey. The survey results were analysed using cluster analysis and one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA). Results:The results show that the per capita consumption varies considerably with household type and size. The average water consumption was 183 and 215 litres/person/day for standalone households and apartments, respectively. Water used in bathing and WC's represent the highest proportion of water consumption in both stand-alone houses and apartments. Over 40% of the households reported no use of showers. The per capita water consumption is inversely related to family size especially in stand-alone houses. Sadr et al.; BJECC, 6(2): 97-115, 2016; Article no.BJECC.2016.010 98 Original Research Article Conclusion:The information pertaining to water use habits and the qualitative and quantitative analysis can be used as an input to a proposed domestic water efficiency tool (DoWET) which can generate optimal water efficient composite strategies keeping in view a range of sustainability indicators including water saving potential, cost and associated energy consumption of the water saving devices and fixtures available in India.

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Section: Discussion: How To Improve Water Use Habits and Switch To A mentioning

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An Analysis of Domestic Water Consumption in Jaipur, India

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Memon

Jain

et al. 2016

BJECC

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“…The inclusion of researchers interested in probing the history of the commodification of water was an important step in broadening the landscape and the actors in the frame. Trentmann and Taylor (2006) analysed the historical development that has led us to the position we find ourselves in today, meanwhile Priscoli (1998) has made a very strong case for looking at our water past and in particular water conflicts, to predict likely outcomes for water use in the future. However, the package of necessary approaches to the analysis of water use that would accomplish useful results cannot be brought together without an understanding of the individual histories surrounding the communities that comprise the consumer element of our studies.…”

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Re-Framing Environmental Social Science Research for Sustainable Water Management in a Changing Climate

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Dessai

Barr

2012

Water Resour Manage

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This paper considers aspects of environmental social science research in the UK and explores an obvious bias towards the development of instruments to manage demand as an adaptation to climate change, and consequently the predominance of interest in the customer from a demand-side perspective. In the case of water, this has resulted in an inappropriate mixing of individualist research methods designed to measure public perceptions of risk and water-based practices, with mass consumption data that cannot be specifically linked to the individual. This mixing has a tendency to reinforce a long-standing blame culture that drives interest in the development of behaviour change initiatives while the relatively unchallenged hydraulic mission to provide safe drinking water and sanitation progresses. With this in mind this paper reviews examples of water use research from California, Australia, and the UK and highlights the more effective routes to understanding water customers and developing behaviour change initiatives that utilise stages of change models and grounded techniques incorporating qualitative and quantitative data from individual sources. A secondary aim is to argue for re-framing the relations between various actors in a changing climate to allow the development of new policy approaches, learning, and openness, from industry, regulators, and customers, based on new theories from the field.

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“…For Londoners, the 1890s brought repeated scarcities and the temporary suspension of constant supply; in South and East London, the "water famine" in the summer of 1895 lasted ten weeks. 90 Some of the causes were natural. But disruption was also a result of material practices that never smoothly followed the engineers' script.…”

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