American Water Works Assn.

Forecasting urban water demand, 2d ed. (CD-ROM included)

Billings (emeritus, economics, U. of Arizona) and Jones (managing director, Economic Data Resources LLC) review methods for forecasting urban water demand and discuss related issues. Chapters cover basic facts about water demand; the choice between major forecasting approaches; data and data structures for water-demand forecasting; per capita and sectoral forecasting; forecasting seasonal and peak water demands; population, employment, and technology forecasts; weather and climate; price effects; long-term and short-term water conservation; forecasting with regression; time-series analysis, neural networks, econometric analysis of consumer response, and risk simulation; and forecast uses, evaluation, and improvement. Appendixes provide further information on survey methods and direct data collection together with the findings of the American Water Works Association's Water-Demand Survey, a polling of some 600 US water utility managers on their forecast practices, conservation programs, and current and anticipated trends in per capita water use in their systems. The CD-ROM contains the data used to develop the tables found in the book (utilization of which requires the installation of Microsoft Excel Analysis Toolpak). (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)