Citation:
T.E. Downing, R.E. Butterfield, B. Edmonds, J.W. Knox, S. Moss, B.S. Piper, E.K. Weatherhead, With the CCDeW Project Team, CCDeW: Climate Change and Demand for Water. Research Report. February 2003. (Stockholm Environment Institute Oxford Office, Oxford.)
Abstract:
The Climate Change and Demand for Water Revisited project (CCDeW) revisits and
updates the benchmark study by Herrington (1996) and takes advantage of new data
sets, regional coverage of demand projections and new methodologies for climate
impact assessment. Domestic demand, industrial and commercial water use and
irrigated agriculture and horticulture are included in the CCDeW study. Leakage
was excluded from the CCDeW study. This report presents the outcome of an
extensive UK research programme concerning: demand forecasting; demand
management; sensitivity of demand to climatic variations; and sources of risk
and uncertainty. While the CCDeW study focuses on demand, climate change
uncertainties feed into supply side and demand estimates of water requirements.
Therefore, the report’s conclusions should be seen as one element in the dynamic
management of the supply/demand balance over the course of the next twenty years
and beyond (see Section 9). Clearly, the extent to which water consumption will
be influenced by climate change depends upon the sensitivity of different
sectors to specific aspects of climate change as well as potential behavioural
and regulatory changes, in part related to different socio-economic and climatic
future
