Analysing water use patterns for demand management: The case of the city of Masvingo, Zimbabwe

Physics and Chemistry of the Earth

Volumn 28, Issue 20-27, 2003, Pages 805-815

  Dube, Emmanuel ^a   van der Zaag, Pieter ^b  

^a Municipality of Masvingo   (Zimbabwe)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZIMBABWE   (Zimbabwe)

Author keywords

Demand management; Elasticity of demand; Supply management; Unaccounted for water; Water loss; Water use projection

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT;

WATER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS;

DEMAND ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA; WATER USE;

MASVINGO; ZIMBABWE;

EID: 0141975746     PISSN: 14747065     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pce.2003.08.004     Document Type: Article

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