Target Water Consumption Calculation for Sustainable Water Usage

Abstract

Degradation of the regional ecological environment has become increasingly serious due to the rapid increase of water usage in economic and social activities. Critical to water consumption management is the control of the specific water consumption affected by human activities in the hydrosocial cycle (i.e. target water consumption), which is a good approach to control the growth of water usage. In perspective of target water consumption, this research work proposes the identification and analysis of water consumption for various sectors in the hydrosocial cycle, the method for calculating the regional target water consumption also is derived based on water balance theory.