Title
Investigating the characteristics of residential end uses of water: A worldwide review
Author
Mazzoni, Filippo (University of Ferrara)
Alvisi, Stefano (University of Ferrara)
Blokker, E.J.M. (TU Delft Sanitary Engineering; KWR Water Research Institute) 
Buchberger, Steven G. (University of Cincinnati)
Castelletti, Andrea (Politecnico di Milano)
Cominola, Andrea (Technical University of Berlin; Einstein Center Digital Future)
Gross, Marie Philine (Technical University of Berlin)
Mayer, Peter (Water Demand Management LLC)
Steffelbauer, David B. (Kompetenzzentrum Wasser Berlin)
Date
2023
Abstract
A detailed characterization of residential water consumption is essential for ensuring urban water systems' capability to cope with changing water resources availability and water demands induced by growing population, urbanization, and climate change. Several studies have been conducted in the last decades to investigate the characteristics of residential water consumption with data at a sufficiently fine temporal resolution for grasping individual end uses of water. In this paper, we systematically review 114 studies to provide a comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art research about water consumption at the end-use level. Specifically, we contribute with: (1) an in-depth discussion of the most relevant findings of each study, highlighting which water end-use characteristics were so far prioritized for investigation in different case studies and water demand modelling and management studies from around the world; and (2) a multi-level analysis to qualitatively and quantitatively compare the most common results available in the literature, i.e. daily per capita end-use water consumption, end-use parameter average values and statistical distributions, end-use daily profiles, end-use determinants, and considerations about efficiency and diffusion of water-saving end uses. Our findings can support water utilities, consumers, and researchers (1) in understanding which key aspects of water end uses were primarily investigated in the last decades; and (2) in exploring their main features considering different geographical, cultural, and socio-economic regions of the world.
Subject
End-use database
Multi-level analysis
Residential end-use study
Residential water consumption
Water end uses
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2022.119500
Embargo date
2023-07-12
ISSN
0043-1354
Source
Water Research, 230
Bibliographical note
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Document type
journal article
Rights
© 2023 Filippo Mazzoni, Stefano Alvisi, E.J.M. Blokker, Steven G. Buchberger, Andrea Castelletti, Andrea Cominola, Marie Philine Gross, Peter Mayer, David B. Steffelbauer, More Authors