Description
Water budgets, volumetric allotments of water tocustomers based on customer-specific characteristicsand conservative resource standards, are an innovativemeans of improving water-use efficiency. Oncethought to be impractical because of technologicalconstraints, water budgets linked with an increasing-blockrate structure have been implemented successfullyby more than 20 utilities.Key issues identified in this examination of waterbudgets and their potential value to North Americanwater utilities include: different practicalapproaches to water budget rate structures; thebenefits and challenges of these approaches; thepotential uses of water budgets during drought; and,important steps in the water budget implementationprocess. Includes 6 references, tables, figure.
Product Details
- Edition:
- Vol. 100 – No. 5
- Published:
- 05/01/2008
- Number of Pages:
- 15
- File Size:
- 1 file , 480 KB
- Note:
- This product is unavailable in Ukraine, Russia, Belarus
