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publications-3947
Type:
article
Year:
2020
Authors:
Mauro, Anna Di and Mauro, Anna Di and Cominola, Andrea and Cominola, Andrea and Castelletti, Andrea and Castelletti, Andrea and Nardo, Armando Di and Nardo, Armando Di
Title:
Urban Water Consumption at Multiple Spatial and Temporal Scales. A Review of Existing Datasets
Venue/Journal:
Water
DOI:
10.3390/w13010036
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Water System:
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Abstract:
Over the last three decades, the increasing development of smart water meter trials and the rise of demand management has fostered the collection of water demand data at increasingly higher spatial and temporal resolutions. Counting these new datasets and more traditional aggregate water demand data, the literature is rich with heterogeneous urban water demand datasets. They are characterized by heterogeneous spatial scalesβ€”from urban districts, to households or individual water fixturesβ€”and temporal sampling frequenciesβ€”from seasonal/monthly up to sub-daily (minutes or seconds). Motivated by the need of tracking the existing datasets in this rapidly evolving field of investigation, this manuscript is the first comprehensive review effort of the state-of-the-art urban water demand datasets. This paper contributes a review of 92 water demand datasets and 120 related peer-review publications compiled in the last 45 years. The reviewed datasets are classified and analyzed according to the following criteria: spatial scale, temporal scale, and dataset accessibility. This research effort builds an updated catalog of the existing water demand datasets to facilitate future research efforts end encourage the publication of open-access datasets in water demand modelling and management research.
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