Progress Report on the Residential Water Use Research Project

Abstract

This article discusses a residential water use research project conducted by the Department of Sanitary Engineering and Water Resources of The Johns Hopkins University under the Technical Studies Program of the Federal Housing Administration in cooperation with sixteen water utilities located throughout the U.S. Project objectives were to: collect, analyze, and evaluate data on water use patterns in residential areas and to determine the magnitude, duration, and frequency of peak demands; and, develop a method of rationally evaluating residential water use by correlating lot size, climate, and other factors with the expectation that these relationships will lead to new or improved design criteria for water distribution systems.