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

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 Ja...

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Autores principales:	Halidu Abu-Bakar, Leon Williams, Stephen H. Hallett
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Publicado:	Nature Portfolio 2021
Materias:	Water supply for domestic and industrial purposes TD201-500
Acceso en línea:	https://doaj.org/article/35aa1233f69e4ae0b62149e2f811c464
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:35aa1233f69e4ae0b62149e2f811c4642021-12-02T14:03:43ZQuantifying the impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on household water consumption patterns in England10.1038/s41545-021-00103-82059-7037https://doaj.org/article/35aa1233f69e4ae0b62149e2f811c4642021-02-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41545-021-00103-8https://doaj.org/toc/2059-7037Abstract 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.Halidu Abu-BakarLeon WilliamsStephen H. HallettNature PortfolioarticleWater supply for domestic and industrial purposesTD201-500ENnpj Clean Water, Vol 4, Iss 1, Pp 1-9 (2021)
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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.
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title	Quantifying the impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on household water consumption patterns in England
title_short	Quantifying the impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on household water consumption patterns in England
title_full	Quantifying the impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on household water consumption patterns in England
title_fullStr	Quantifying the impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on household water consumption patterns in England
title_full_unstemmed	Quantifying the impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on household water consumption patterns in England
title_sort	quantifying the impact of the covid-19 lockdown on household water consumption patterns in england
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Quantifying the impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on household water consumption patterns in England

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