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The Residential End Uses of Water Study,
Version 3 will:
Explore where and how people use water
in single-family and multi-family households including toilets, showers, faucets,
clothes washers, irrigation, and more.
Evaluate the efficiency of water use and
how use patterns have changed over the
past 25 years.
Compare indoor and outdoor residential water use across housing types and
geographies.
Understanding residential water
demands and usage trends is crucial for
managing and supplying water. This data is
essential for water users, utilities, planners,
regulators, businesses, agriculture, manufacturers, and governments. Residential
end-use data is fundamental for future
planning, program and product development, and the long-term sustainability and
resilience of North American communities.
Flume strategic partner, Peter Mayer,
P.E. of WaterDM, is the Principal Investigator of the Residential End Uses of Water
Study, Version 3 and he was the Co-Principal
Investigator for Version 1 and 2. “Reliable
data on where and how people use water is
fundamental to planning for a safe, secure
future, and this study will provide the most
comprehensive view of American household
water use to date,” Mayer said. “In the previous WRF residential end-use
studies, we analyzed water use for hundreds of homes over a period of
weeks. In Version 3 with Flume, we have access to years of high-resolution water use data from over one hundred thousand households where
Flume sensors are already deployed - a remarkable advancement.”
It is anticipated that project results will be available in 2025. Stay up to
date on project progress by visiting the project page of the WRF website
or by contacting Flume at partnerships@flumewater.com.
Water Wars
Acclaimed author and award-winning
scientist and activist Vandana Shiva lucidly
details the severity of the global water
shortage, calling the water crisis “the most
pervasive, most severe, and most invisible
dimension of the ecological devastation of the
Earth.” Shiva sheds
light on the activists
who are fighting
corporate maneuvers
to convert the
life-sustaining
resource of water
into more gold for
the elites and uses
her knowledge
of science and
society to outline
the emergence of
corporate culture
and the historical
erosion of communal
water rights. Using
the international
water trade and industrial activities such as
damming, mining, and aquafarming as her
lens, Shiva exposes the destruction of the
Earth and the disenfranchisement of the
world’s poor as they are stripped of rights
to a precious common good. Revealing how
many of the most important conflicts of our
time, most often camouflaged as ethnic wars
or religious wars, are in fact conflicts over
scarce but vital natural resources, she calls
for a movement to preserve water access for
all and offers a blueprint for global resistance
based on examples of successful campaigns.
Water Wars also celebrates the spiritual
and traditional role water has played in
communities throughout history and warns
that water privatization threatens cultures
and livelihoods worldwide.
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