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For many years we believed that water supply was difficult, but water demand quite simple. What passed for demand analysis consisted of projecting growth curves of consumption forward in time as a function of some independent variable such as population (or, in more mathematically sophisticated models, several independent variables). At the risk of irritating many friends and colleagues, I would suggest that we got it backwards. In reality, supply is relatively simple — a matter of working with physical laws of hydrology and engineering principles — whereas demand, which depends on variables linked to human needs and behaviour, and which change over time and space, cannot be so easily constrained.
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Brooks, D.B. (2001). Water Demand Management. In: Feitelson, E., Haddad, M. (eds) Management of Shared Groundwater Resources. Natural Resource Management and Policy, vol 18. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0680-4_20
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