CREH staff have contributed to, and led, water demand and related investigations for the majority of large UK water companies. Where the work has had a strong demographic component, we have worked in partnership with Edge Analytics – the specialists in demographic modelling, or with Thomas Mackay Ltd.
Analyses Undertaken to Date
- Alternative approaches to demand forecasting
- Population accounting, household size forecasting (delivered to multiple companies)
- Hidden and transient water demand (delivered to multiple companies)
- Bias quantification in domestic consumption monitors (delivered to multiple companies)
- Quality assurance of internal demand investigations
- Review of demand components
- Determination of ethnic demand (delivered to multiple companies)
- SWOT analysis of universal metering
- Cost-benefit analysis of universal metering
- DCM fit to regional metrics
- Debt and deprivation
- Economic benefits of water company investment
- Regional benefit of utility investment (gas, electricity, multiple water)
- Water balance reconciliation
