Water Consumption on Spanish Households

Water has always been a very precious resource. However, many of us do not fully understand or appreciate water-s value until there will be a shortage. We intended to analyze the water consumption into the Spanish households to understand their behavior according to the habitants of the house. In this research was carried out a survey of users, asking for water consumption of their households. The aim of this paper is get a reference value of consumers in Spanish households to help to check their bill and realize if their consumption is excessive, including some tips to decrease it.

Authors:

• A. Castillo
• A. Gutiérrez
• J. M. Gutiérrez
• J. M. Gómez
• E. García-López

Keywords:

• Households
• survey
• water consumption.

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