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13. The Social Determinants of Water Consumption in Australian Cities

Author : Patrick Troy

Published in: Understanding and Managing Urban Water in Transition

Publisher: Springer Netherlands

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Abstract

Most cities in Australia periodically face acute shortages of potable water. In most of them the supply of potable water comes from sequestering supplies from eco-systems away from but close to that in which the urban development occurs. The response usually is to try to husband the water sequestered and stored in dams by managing the demand to ‘get’ through the dry periods.

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Metadata
Title
The Social Determinants of Water Consumption in Australian Cities
Author
Patrick Troy
Copyright Year
2015
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9801-3_13