Abstract
The aging and the social advance of womenmove ahead and also the material abundance makes choice of the way of the life various ones. Of course, it thinks that the trend brings a changeof water use structure in the household. Above-mentioned viewpoint is important when thinking of the plan of disaster mitigation against earthquake and drought. It becomes necessary to evaluate the water use structure in the household itself from the viewpoint of dealing with the old society and disaster mitigation.This paper proposes one approach which applied a life style concept to this problem. First, we explain a life style concept and a water use structure model in a household. The model consist of basic attribute of household, apparatus, water use act and consciousness. We analyze about these items in case study and show that each life stage's water use structures are different. Furthermore we consider the water use act in case of disaster from two viewpoints of the life line dependence type and the commercial function dependence type which defined by life style factors and finally we show the effectiveness of the life style approach.
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