학술논문

New Developments in Water Efficiency
Document Type
Academic Journal
Source
中国海洋大学学报(英文版) / JOURNAL OF OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA. 5(4):375-380
Subject
water conservation
financial incentives
water use regulation and legislation
water-efficient equipment
Language
Chinese
ISSN
1672-5182
Abstract
An overview of significant new developments in water efficiency is presented in this paper. The areas covered will be legislative, regulatory, new programs or program wrinkles, new products, and new studies on the effectiveness of conservation programs. Examples include state and local level efficiency regulations in Texas; the final results of the national submetering study for apartments in the US; the US effort to adopt the IWA protocols for leak detection; new water efficient commercial products such as ET irrigation controllers, new models of efficient clothes washers, and innovative toilet designs.