1. Estimation of state-wide and monthly domestic water use in India from 1975 to 2015.
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Joseph, Naveen, Ryu, Dongryeol, Malano, Hector M., George, Biju, and Sudheer, K. P.
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WATER use , *COST of living , *GROSS domestic product - Abstract
Domestic water use is one of India's primary water uses that also includes irrigation, industrial, and environmental water uses. However, there is a lack of reliable data that hinders the estimation of domestic water use in India. Previous large-scale assessments often estimated domestic water use using population alone as a predictor. Economic and technological development and the improvement in the country's living standards may increase per-capita domestic water use. The present study's objective was to develop a large-scale domestic water use model in India, which considered the temporal variation of per-capita domestic water use. The economic indicator per-capita Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was used to model the time-variant per-capita domestic water use. The model results showed acceptable performance (NSE>0.7) at both the national and state levels. Maharashtra exhibited the highest per-capita domestic water use in the country because of the rapid economic and technological development relative to other States. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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