dc.contributor.author | Abu-Bakar, Halidu | |
dc.contributor.author | Williams, Leon | |
dc.contributor.author | Hallett, Stephen H. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-02-23T10:26:06Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-02-23T10:26:06Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021-02-18 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Abu-Bakar H, Williams L, Hallett SH. (2021) Quantifying the impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on household water consumption patterns in England. npj Clean Water, Volume 4, 2021, Article number 13 | en_UK |
dc.identifier.issn | 2059-7037 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41545-021-00103-8 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/16386 | |
dc.description.abstract | The COVID-19 lockdown has instigated significant changes in household behaviours across a variety of categories including water consumption, which in the south and east regions of England is at an all-time high. We analysed water consumption data from 11,528 households over 20 weeks from January 2020, revealing clusters of households with distinctive temporal patterns. We present a data-driven household water consumer segmentation characterising households’ unique consumption patterns and we demonstrate how the understanding of the impact of these patterns of behaviour on network demand during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown can improve the accuracy of demand forecasting. Our results highlight those groupings with the highest and lowest impact on water demand across the network, revealing a significant quantifiable change in water consumption patterns during the COVID-19 lockdown period. The implications of the study to urban water demand forecasting strategies are discussed, along with proposed future research directions | en_UK |
dc.language.iso | en | en_UK |
dc.publisher | Nature Research (part of Springer Nature) | en_UK |
dc.rights | Attribution 4.0 International | * |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | * |
dc.subject | Water resources | en_UK |
dc.subject | Hydrology | en_UK |
dc.title | Quantifying the impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on household water consumption patterns in England | en_UK |
dc.type | Article | en_UK |
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