Residential water use trend shifts by implementation of best management practices for water conservation Conference

Lee, M, Tansel, B, Balbin, M et al. (2011). Residential water use trend shifts by implementation of best management practices for water conservation . 3198-3202. 10.1061/41173(414)335

cited authors

  • Lee, M; Tansel, B; Balbin, M; Barney, B

abstract

  • Sustainability for water conservation is a critical issue from environmental, social and economic demand perspectives. The water conservation best management practices (BMPs) promoted by Miami-Dade Water and Sewer Department (MDWASD) assisted costumers in implementing efficient water use measures to achieve maximum water savings while reducing the water demand. BMPs that were implemented by MDWASD included senior and low income family full retrofit program, as well as incentives for high efficiency toilets, high efficiency showerheads and high efficiency cloth washer rebates. The water use trend shifts can be found in both BMPs programs' water use frequency curve and cumulative distribution curve, which suggested that the participants in both programs experienced water savings during the period of installation of high efficiency appliances. For the senior and low income family full retrofit program (all the participated household has one toilet, one showerhead and two aerators installed), as expected, it delivered near 8.53 of water savings for the first year of retrofit for the 418 participating households. For the high efficiency appliances rebate program, the average water savings for the first year of installation are 4.24, 5.45 and 5.17 for showerhead, toilet and washer programs, respectively. It is estimated to have approximately 7.8 million gallons per year of water savings for the 1723 participating households. © 2011 ASCE.

publication date

  • July 21, 2011

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 13

start page

  • 3198

end page

  • 3202