Quantifying the impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on household water consumption patterns in England

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dc.contributor.authorAbu-Bakar, Halidu
dc.contributor.authorWilliams, Leon
dc.contributor.authorHallett, Stephen H.
dc.date.accessioned2021-02-23T10:26:06Z
dc.date.available2021-02-23T10:26:06Z
dc.date.issued2021-02-18
dc.description.abstractThe 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 directionsen_UK
dc.identifier.citationAbu-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 13en_UK
dc.identifier.issn2059-7037
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41545-021-00103-8
dc.identifier.urihttp://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/16386
dc.language.isoenen_UK
dc.publisherNature Research (part of Springer Nature)en_UK
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/*
dc.subjectWater resourcesen_UK
dc.subjectHydrologyen_UK
dc.titleQuantifying the impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on household water consumption patterns in Englanden_UK
dc.typeArticleen_UK

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