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Managing demands for water, water-related services, and ecosystem services can convert unlimited requests for resources to ones that consider resource limits. Urban water demand involves an aggregate of domestic, commercial, and industrial demands, and auditing of water uses in cities offers a tool to improve efficiency. Many industries supply their own water and are not connected to utility networks. Irrigation is by far the largest water use on the basis of consumptive use, especially in dry regions. Demands for instream flows are satisfied after withdrawals, discharges, and losses occur, and the health of instream flows is an indicator of the success of IWRM. Demand for sanitation services and wastewater management is mostly inelastic because people have few alternatives. Flood control services do not involve water demand but the use of water facilities, which could be used to increase water yield.
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Grigg, N.S. (2016). Demand for Water, Water Services, and Ecosystem Services. In: Integrated Water Resource Management. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57615-6_11
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