Predicting Household Water Consumption With Individual-Level Variables

Jorgensen, Bradley S.; Martin, John; Pearce, Meryl; Willis, Eileen

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“…A study conducted in urban areas of Mexico found that attitude towards saving water correlated with both intention to conserve water (positive) and recorded water consumption (negative) [10]. Research carried out in two Australian states identified a significant negative association between commitment to saving water and metered household consumption in Victoria but not in South Australia [11]. Other studies have failed to find an association between attitudes and norms and metered water consumption [12]).…”

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Psychosocial and Behavioural Factors Associated with Intention to Save Water Around the Home: A Greek Case Study

Perren

Yang

2015

Procedia Engineering

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As potable water becomes an increasingly scarce resource, its conservation has become a high priority around the world. This paper investigates psychosocial and behavioural factors influencing consumers' intention to engage in everyday water saving actions around the home. A web-based survey was used to collect data from 174 individuals in Greece. An extended theory of planned behaviour perspective was used to model intention to engage in water saving actions around the home. Research hypotheses were constructed regarding the influence of attitudes, subjective norms, perceived behavioural control, information exposure and current engagement in water saving actions. Engagement in water saving behaviour, and active engagement with information on water conservation, predicted intention to save water; however, mere exposure to information was not implicated. Subjective norms and perceptions of control predicted intention to save water but attitudes towards saving water did not.

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Psychosocial and Behavioural Factors Associated with Intention to Save Water Around the Home: A Greek Case Study

Perren

Yang

2015

Procedia Engineering

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“…However, one person's attitudes may not be representative of everyone's attitudes in households with more than one person [13]. Consequently measuring just one person's attitudes could be one cause of the poor explanatory power of attitudes in some research [13,14]. 70% of all households in the UK had more than one person and 85% of those households included a couple [15].…”

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His, hers or both's? The role of male and female's attitudes in explaining their home energy use behaviours

Yang

Shipworth

Huebner

2015

Energy and Buildings

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a b s t r a c tBuilding energy research has historically overlooked the role of attitudes, instead focusing on building and socio-demographic influences. Even when attitudes are measured, usually, the attitudes of just one household member are measured even though household energy consumption is the result of actions of all household members. This research explored first whether attitudes could help explain heating usage and second whether the attitudes of a couple could explain more of the variability in heating behaviour than the attitudes of one partner. The attitudes towards home heating energy use (i.e. attitudes towards thermal comfort, economical with energy, industry and technology's role and individual's role) of 128 English couples were used in this study. Together with building and socio-demographics, attitudes were examined to explain heating temperatures and durations, which were derived from temperature sensors placed in the homes in 2007-2008. The results showed that attitudes helped explain heating temperatures and durations, even when building and socio-demographic variables were controlled. Economical with energy was the most highly identified influence on heating behaviours, with thermal comfort a close second. In households that included a couple, combined attitudes of both partners explained heating usage behaviours more accurately than the attitudes of either male or female only.Crown

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“…In fact, it has been shown that even with segmentation based on attitudes, values, and socio-geo-demographic variables, current approaches provide relatively poor predictions of individual water use [59]. A study by Jorgensen et al [62] in South Australia and Victoria, Australia, explored the way that the temporal dynamics of metered household water consumption could be explained by individual household characteristics. It was found that household size and personal motivations were important factors, and the level of social comparison predicts temporal changes over time.…”

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Promoting Water Conservation: Where to from here?

Moglia¹,

Cook²,

Tapsuwan³

2018

Water

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This paper reports on a review of international water conservation efforts, but with a particular focus on the Australian context. The aim is to take stock of the current understanding of water conservation, in particular: what influences people's decision to conserve water, what influences whether people persist with water conservation behavior and what contributes to awareness and familiarity of water conservation behaviors. We also explore how all these factors jointly can achieve water savings over time, and the efficacy of past efforts to save water. Subsequently, this is used to identify where leading practice for managing water conservation is heading, which we argue is the application of recent developments in behavioral science and advances in smart metering to personalize water conservation programs. To support individualized water conservation efforts, we need more longitudinal studies of water conservation behavior, a greater focus on behavioral science, as well as the development of modelling tools that embed insights and lessons of this research into decision support capability. This can help to develop the capacity to better implement water conservation programs that respond to short-term water scarcity crises, such as droughts, while also providing persistent reductions in per-capita water demand that can help meet strategic water planning needs, such as deferring or downsizing capital investment in supply infrastructure to accommodate demands associated with population growth.

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Predicting Household Water Consumption With Individual-Level Variables

Cited by 44 publications

References 42 publications

Psychosocial and Behavioural Factors Associated with Intention to Save Water Around the Home: A Greek Case Study

Psychosocial and Behavioural Factors Associated with Intention to Save Water Around the Home: A Greek Case Study

His, hers or both's? The role of male and female's attitudes in explaining their home energy use behaviours

Promoting Water Conservation: Where to from here?

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