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dc.contributor.authorWillis, Rachelle M
dc.contributor.authorStewart, Rodney A
dc.contributor.authorPanuwatwanich, Kriengsak
dc.contributor.authorJones, Sarah
dc.contributor.authorKyriakides, Andreas
dc.contributor.editorE. Worrell
dc.date.accessioned2017-09-06T12:30:16Z
dc.date.available2017-09-06T12:30:16Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.date.modified2010-09-10T05:19:18Z
dc.identifier.issn0921-3449
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.resconrec.2010.03.004
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/33899
dc.description.abstractSustainable urban water consumption has become a critical issue in Australian built environments due to the country's dry climate and increasingly variable rainfall. Residential households have the potential to conserve water, especially across discretionary end uses such as showering. The advent of high resolution smart meters and data loggers allows for the disaggregation of water flow recordings into a registry of water end use events (e.g. showers, washing machine, taps, etc.). This study firstly reports on a water consumption end use study sample of 151 households conducted in the Gold Coast, Australia, with a focus on daily per capita shower end use distributions. A sub-sample of 44 households within the greater sample was recruited for the installation of an alarming visual display monitor locked at 40 litres consumption for bathroom showers. All sub-sample shower end use event durations, volumes and flow rates were then analysed and compared utilising independent sample t-tests pre- and post intervention. The installation of the shower monitor instigated a statistically significant mean reduction of 15.40 litres (27%) in shower event volumes. Monetary savings resulting from modelled water and energy conservation resulted in a 1.65 year payback period for the device. Furthermore, conservative modelling indicated that the citywide implementation of the device could yield 3% and 2.4% savings in total water and energy consumption, respectively. Moreover, a range of non-monetary benefits were indentified, including the deferment of water and energy supply infrastructure, reduced resource inflationary pressures, and climate change mitigation, to name a few. Resource consumption awareness devices like the one evaluated in this study assist resource consumers to take ownership of their usage and individually tackle individualistic and/or society driven conservation goals, ultimately helping to reduce the ecological footprint of built environments.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
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dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherElsevier
dc.publisher.placeNetherlands
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom1117
dc.relation.ispartofpageto1127
dc.relation.ispartofissue12
dc.relation.ispartofjournalResources, Conservation and Recycling
dc.relation.ispartofvolume54
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchEnvironmental sciences
dc.subject.fieldofresearchEnvironmental management
dc.subject.fieldofresearchEngineering
dc.subject.fieldofresearchBuilt environment and design
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode41
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode410404
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode40
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode33
dc.titleAlarming visual display monitors affecting shower end use water and energy conservation in Australian residential households
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.facultyGriffith Sciences, Griffith School of Engineering
gro.rights.copyright© 2010 Elsevier B.V. This is the author-manuscript version of this paper. Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal's website for access to the definitive, published version.
gro.date.issued2010
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gro.griffith.authorStewart, Rodney A.


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