Water Demand Forecasting

✍ Scribed by V. Gardiner (Author); P. Herrington (Author)

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 1986
• Leaves: 148
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book is an outcome of the workshop on water demand forecasting in 1985. It summarises the `state-of-the-art` in water demand forecasting, and identifies some of its links with environmental issues. The book discusses some of the issues raised in more detail and provides case studies.

✦ Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Environmental Issues and the Water Demand Forecasting Workshop Part I 2. The basis and practice of water demand forecasting 3. Demand forecasting in the water industry 4. Water demand forecasting and the social sciences 5. Short term demand forecasting - some engineering considerations Part II 6. Peak demand forecasting 7. Forecasting industrial demand for water 8. A survey of domestic water consumption 9. Short term demand forecasting 10. Water demand forecasting in system development and control 11. Information considerations 12. Forecasting long term water needs on the Saharan margins of southern Tunisi 13. The Kielder Water scheme - financial and environmental implications of demand forecasting 14. Demand forecasting and planning policy 15. Domestic demand forecasting in the electricity supply industry

✦ Subjects

Engineering & Technology;Civil, Environmental and Geotechnical Engineering;Water Engineering