Abstract
It is of significance to examine the factors impacting individual water-saving behavior and their mechanism of action for water demand management, especially for domestic water demand management. To provide a solution to the issues of individual water-saving behavior research with unclear influence mechanisms and subjective modeling decisions, this study provides a novel idea of combining social survey and model study for research on domestic water conservation, introduces complex adaptive system theory to describe the mechanism of action between individuals as well as between individuals and external stimuli, and proposes a general framework for the model establishment and analysis of individual water-saving response research under external stimuli. This study uses Beijing as an empirical city. Based on the analysis results of the survey on Beijing residents’ domestic water use combined with the problems in Beijing’s domestic water-saving efforts, this study constructs water-saving regulation scenarios and corresponding individual water-saving response rules; systematically simulates the change process of individual water use considering the aspects of water price formulation, water use information, and water-saving publicity and education; quantitatively analyzes the influence of these three types of external stimuli on individual water saving; proposes individual water-saving promotion measures; and suggests the three aspects of water price formulation, water use information feedback, water-saving publicity and education.
Highlights
With the rapid economic development and continuous population growth, an increasing number of countries are attempting to resolve the challenge of the deepening contradiction between the supply of and demand for water resources
The individual is the basic unit of domestic water use, and the final effect of domestic water saving is closely related to individual water use behavior
The model calculation results demonstrated the change in the total monthly domestic water consumption of the system under the current water price system in Beijing (Figure 10)
Summary
With the rapid economic development and continuous population growth, an increasing number of countries are attempting to resolve the challenge of the deepening contradiction between the supply of and demand for water resources. Water demand management mainly focused on agricultural and industrial water demand. Due to a growing population and an ever-increasing standard of living, the proportion of domestic water consumption in several countries has been increasing, which has even become the primary growing part of water consumption. The domestic water demand management has been paid increasing attention. The individual is the basic unit of domestic water use, and the final effect of domestic water saving is closely related to individual water use behavior. Examining individual water use behavior is the micro basis of water demand management. Understanding individual water-saving behavior and its promotion measures
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