Estimation of Water Demand in Developing Countries
By Céline Nauges, D. Whittington. 2010
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A better understanding of household water use in developing countries is necessary to manage and expand water systems more effectively. Several meta-analyzes have examined the determinants of household water demand in industrialized countries, but little effort has been made to synthesize the growing body of literature evaluating household water demand in developing countries. This article reviews what is known and what is missing from that literature thus far. Analysis of demand for water in developing countries is complicated by abundant evidence that, contrary to what is observed in most developed countries, households in developing countries have access to, and may use more than one of several types of, water sources. The authors describe the different modeling strategies that researchers have adopted to estimate water demand in developing countries and discuss issues related to data collection. The findings from the literature on the main determinants of water demand in these countries suggest that, ...
Subfields: Nutrition and Dietetics, Ocean Engineering, Water Science and Technology
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Citations in the corpus
- A meta-analysis of residential water demand studies (2014, background): “This may be explained by the fact that households in developing countries may rely, in addition to the metered water, on other type of sources (Nauges and Whittington 2010).”
- Setting Priorities, Targeting Subsidies among Water, Sanitation, and Preventive Health Interventions in Developing Countries (2012, background): “On the other hand, household demand for piped water services in developing countries is very inelastic (Nauges & Whittington, 2009), even though the health benefits from these services in developing countries are ambiguous and controversial (Bennett, 2010; Cairncross et al., 2010; Fewtrell et al.,…”