Estimating Small Area Demand for Water: A New Methodology

摘要: The estimation of water demand is fundamental to effective resource management. Water supply measured at district level but true not, and therefore studies water-pricing relations are limited mass-balance based assessment leakage, illegal use, meter inaccuracies, etc., compromised. This paper describes the value limitations existing geodemographic methods, an alternative technique widely used in other fields, microsimulation, proposed. It shown that geographic stability not found all consumer commodities cannot be assumed for water. Sampled data Leeds, West Yorkshire, construct a microsimulation model, results model applied city Leeds ward level. Applicability. also demonstrated enumeration