Household water efficiency strategies in Cornwall, SW of England

Sharpe, Richard; Osborne, Nicholas J.; Skerratt, Glynn

doi:10.1111/wej.12150

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“…This research is focused upon the UK context, in terms of utility governance, infrastructure, supply pressures and social drivers but the authors recognise that there is a larger literature focusing on such issues outside the UK, including [22][23][24][25][26].…”

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Challenges of Researching Showering Routines: From the Individual to the Socio-Material

2019

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In the UK, water supplies are under pressure from climate, population and lifestyle change. Showering is the largest component of domestic water consumption. Young adults are high water-users at a transitional life-stage, when practices are dynamic, and habits shaped. This paper presents the methodology, early findings and reflections on challenges of working with different data types and scales, to explore real-world water-saving through a mixed-methods approach, focusing on showering patterns of first year university students in campus accommodation at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK. Combining household meter, logged water-fixture micro-component, personal-use questionnaire, user diary and stakeholder focus group data with the Scottish Government Individual-Social-Material model, typical showering demand reduction interventions were evaluated and insights into alternative interventions were generated. Results indicate Estates’ routine equipment maintenance and database management affect data quality and consistency. Despite these issues a profile of daily student water use was derived (equivalent to 114 litres per person per day) but with high variability between different households (from 83 to 151 litres per person per day). Average shower durations (self-reported 10–12 minutes) were higher than reported UK norms, although frequency was similar to the UK daily shower norm. Average measured shower volumes (51 litres in one house) were not excessive, indicating shower fixtures provided a contribution to water saving.

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Challenges of Researching Showering Routines: From the Individual to the Socio-Material

2019

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“…Educating rural household on water conservation, providing financial incentives for adopting water saving appliances, will help in promoting water efficiency behaviour and hence water efficiency (Onyenankeya et al, 2021). Adoption of combined low cost water efficiency devices, water audit, metering, variable water prices, product exchange programme, and use of grey water offer an alternative solution to water use efficiency (Sharpe et al, 2015). Water use at home is largely influenced by individuals' behaviour.…”

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Financial sustainability of rural water supply: An analysis of cost recovery, revenue collection, and efficiency

Mohanty

Rout

2022

Water & Environment J

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Maintaining a financial sustainable pipe water supply (PWS) is one of the serious challenges in sustainable provision of water supply in rural areas. Poor revenue collection and willingness to pay for the service is adding severity to the problem. This study analyses the factors affecting revenue collection in rural water utilities and measures its efficiency in maximizing revenue and average hour of water supply per day. The findings convey that cost recovery is a failure in rural water supply even they are not able to generate revenue. Inactive community participation, the notion of free water supply, unaccountable payment is main reason for poor revenue collection. Therefore, active community participations, educating the household on water supply, adoption of accountable payment mode will be a step towards revenue generation. To attain efficiency, the utilities can expand their output revenue and hours of water supply by 22% without altering their input. This study is an empirical contribution in the field of sustainable provision of water supplies, which address the problem of poor revenue generation in rural water supply and find out the reason for it.

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“…Some customers claim that they "have a say in all issues that affect their bills" ( [104], p. 10), especially water prices as the main expenditure on their bills. Many water users believe that the water sector needs to meet the actual needs of customers and the reasonableness of pricing, but they do not oppose mandatory measurement or variable price structures [105]. Using high water prices to reduce demand directly is the most common price intervention in the EU [106], despite public opposition [107].…”

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How do citizens feel about their water services in the water sector? Evidence from the UK

2021

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At present, many studies have used social survey methods to explore UK water citizens’ perceptions of the water sector’s water services, but there are few more targeted and systematic studies. This paper mainly displays the perceptions of UK water citizens on water services in the water sector in recent years and analyses the main reasons for different perceptions and possible strategies. We conduct extensive research from four aspects that are highly related to water services: water citizens’ perceptions of the water supply services and technology application (infrastructure construction) provided by the water sector; the state of communication between the water sector and water citizens and their perceptions of water supply management; water citizens’ perceptions of the comprehensive utilisation of water resources in the water sector; water citizens’ perceptions of the water prices set by the water sector. These discussions aim to discover citizens’ perceptions of the water sector and the effects on the public participation mechanism. These insights help attract the water sector’s attention so that the public’s opinions can genuinely support water policymakers and provide sure support for the water sector to formulate corresponding solutions.

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Household water efficiency strategies in Cornwall, SW of England

Cited by 4 publications

References 15 publications

Challenges of Researching Showering Routines: From the Individual to the Socio-Material

Challenges of Researching Showering Routines: From the Individual to the Socio-Material

Financial sustainability of rural water supply: An analysis of cost recovery, revenue collection, and efficiency

How do citizens feel about their water services in the water sector? Evidence from the UK

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