Correlating water consumption behaviour with billing, infrastructure and socio-demographic factors

Integrating Water Systems - Proceedings of the 10th International on Computing and Control for the Water Industry, CCWI 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 105-111

  Loureiro, D ^a   Coelho, S T ^a   Rebelo, M ^a   Ramalho, P ^a   Alegre, H ^a   Covas, D I C ^b   Pina, A ^c  

^a NATIONAL LABORATORY FOR CIVIL ENGINEERING   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^c SMAS Oeiras Amadora Water Utility   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSUMPTION PATTERNS; CONSUMPTION STATISTICS; CONTINUOUS MONITORING; LARGE CONSUMERS; MULTIVARIATE STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; PORTUGAL; SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; WATER CONSUMPTION;

POPULATION STATISTICS; WATER SUPPLY; WATERWORKS;

FACTOR ANALYSIS;

EID: 84856201919     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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