Causes of Domestic Water Consumption Trends in the City of Alicante: Exploring the Links between the Housing Bubble, the Types of Housing and the Socio-Economic Factors

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Título: Causes of Domestic Water Consumption Trends in the City of Alicante: Exploring the Links between the Housing Bubble, the Types of Housing and the Socio-Economic Factors
Autor/es: Morote Seguido, Álvaro Francisco | Hernández-Hernández, María | Rico, Antonio
Grupo/s de investigación o GITE: Agua y Territorio | Paisajes y Recursos Naturales en España | Clima y Ordenación del Territorio
Centro, Departamento o Servicio: Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Análisis Geográfico Regional y Geografía Física | Universidad de Alicante. Instituto Interuniversitario de Geografía
Palabras clave: Water | Consumption | Tourism | Coast | Real estate bubble | Alicante
Área/s de conocimiento: Análisis Geográfico Regional
Fecha de publicación: 31-ago-2016
Editor: MDPI
Cita bibliográfica: Morote Á-F, Hernández M, Rico A-M. Causes of Domestic Water Consumption Trends in the City of Alicante: Exploring the Links between the Housing Bubble, the Types of Housing and the Socio-Economic Factors. Water. 2016; 8(9):374. doi:10.3390/w8090374
Resumen: The European Mediterranean coastline has experienced major tourism-related urbanization since 1960. This is a dynamic that has led to increased spending on water consumption for urban and tourism-related uses. The objective of this paper is to define and to analyze how domestic water consumption in the city of Alicante evolved between 2000 and 2013. Real billing figures for individual households were analyzed according to the type of housing and the income level of the occupants. The conclusions drawn show that consumption fell over the period studied, and that there are different patterns in water expenditure depending on the type of housing and the inhabitants.
Patrocinador/es: The results presented in this article are part of three research studies. The first, entitled “Urbanisation and water metabolism in the coast of Alicante: Analysis of trends for the 2000–2010 period” was funded by the Spanish MINECO under grant number CSO2012-36997-C02-02. The second, entitled “Uses and management of non-conventional water resources in the coast of Valencia and Murcia as an adaptation strategy to drought” funded by the Spanish MINECO under grant number CSO2015-65182-C2-2-P. The third is part of a Ph.D. research grant funded by the Spanish Ministry of Education.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10045/57637
ISSN: 2073-4441
DOI: 10.3390/w8090374
Idioma: eng
Tipo: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Derechos: © 2016 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Revisión científica: si
Versión del editor: http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/w8090374
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