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dc.contributor.convenorUrban Water Security Research Alliance
dc.contributor.authorFielding, K.
dc.contributor.authorRussell, Sally
dc.contributor.authorSpinks, A.
dc.contributor.authorMcCrea, R.
dc.contributor.authorStewart, Rodney
dc.contributor.authorGardner, J.
dc.contributor.editorBegbie, D. K.
dc.contributor.editorKenway, S. J.
dc.contributor.editorBiermann, S. M.
dc.contributor.editorWakem, S. L.
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T12:25:05Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T12:25:05Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.date.modified2013-06-13T05:00:02Z
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/46539
dc.description.abstractThis paper reports on a study of household water use, which trialled three different interventions designed to reduce consumption. Two hundred and twenty-one households in South East Queensland (SEQ) were divided into four groups - three different intervention types and one control group - and their ongoing daily water consumption was monitored before, during and after the intervention. In the information only condition, households received general advice about how they could save water. In the descriptive norm condition, households received information about water saving along with information about the numbers of other "low water use households" that used these same behaviours. In the water end-use feedback condition, households received water saving tips along with tailored specific information about where water was being used in their own household. Longitudinal analysis showed that the information only and descriptive norm conditions resulted in water savings quite rapidly, but these changes were lost over time, as households later returned to their pre-intervention water use levels. In the water end-use condition, by contrast, water use declined more slowly, but the effect of this intervention was longer-lived. Implications for future interventions in domestic water consumption are discussed.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
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dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherUrban Water Security Research Alliance
dc.publisher.placeAustralia
dc.publisher.urihttp://www.urbanwateralliance.org.au/publications/forum2012/index.html#presentations
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofconferencenameScience Forum and Stakeholder Engagement: Building Linkages, Collaboration and Science Quality
dc.relation.ispartofconferencetitleScience Forum and Stakeholder Engagement: Building Linkages, Collaboration and Science Quality
dc.relation.ispartofdatefrom2012-06-19
dc.relation.ispartofdateto2012-06-20
dc.relation.ispartoflocationBrisbane, Australia
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchWater Resources Engineering
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode090509
dc.titleWater end use feedback produces long-term reductions in residential water demand
dc.typeConference output
dc.type.descriptionE1 - Conferences
dc.type.codeE - Conference Publications
gro.rights.copyright© 2012 Urban Water Security Research Alliance. The attached file is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the conference's website for access to the definitive, published version.
gro.date.issued2012
gro.hasfulltextFull Text
gro.griffith.authorStewart, Rodney A.
gro.griffith.authorRussell, Sally


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