Flushing the Future? Examining Urban Water Use in Canada

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dc.contributor.authorBrandes, Oliver M.
dc.contributor.authorFerguson, Keith
dc.date.accessioned2017-04-24T19:39:34Z
dc.date.available2017-04-24T19:39:34Z
dc.date.copyright2003en_US
dc.date.issued2003-08-01
dc.description.abstractThe majority of Canadians live in large urban and regional centres, and municipal water use represents a significant portion (12 percent) of overall water withdrawals in Canada. Urban users in Canada use more than twice as much water as their European counterparts, with significant levels of wastage and inefficiency. Such high levels of urban water use have resulted in expensive supply and disposal infrastructure expansions, ecological impacts in developed areas where environmental stresses are already high, and increasing pressure on water treatment facilities to treat all water to drinking quality standards. Demand-side management (DSM) is an alternative (or, more accurately, complementary) approach to increasing supply infrastructure. It involves decreasing the demand for water through a mix of education, technology, pricing reform, regulation and recycling. This report provides insight into water use and supply in Canadian cities and the potential for demand side management.en_US
dc.description.reviewstatusRevieweden_US
dc.description.scholarlevelFacultyen_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThe authors would like to express their thanks to the Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation for its support of this project.en_US
dc.identifier.citationBrandes, O.M. & Ferguson, K. (2003, August) Flushing the Future? Examining Urban Water Use in Canada. POLIS Project on Ecological Governance at the University of Victoria.en_US
dc.identifier.isbn1-55058-280-1
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/7958
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherPOLIS Project on Ecological Governance, University of Victoriaen_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 Canada*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ca/*
dc.subjectdemand-side managementen_US
dc.subjectwater conservationen_US
dc.subjectwater soft pathen_US
dc.titleFlushing the Future? Examining Urban Water Use in Canadaen_US
dc.typeTechnical Reporten_US

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