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Title: Questions about the future of domestic water consumption


1
Questions about the future of domestic water
consumption
  • Traces of Water Workshop 5
  • 6th April 2006
  • Will Medd and Elizabeth Shove

2
Unpacking implicit assumptions
  • From water customers
  • to the negotiation of consumer identities
  • From demand constituted by decisions
  • to the routines of everyday life
  • From domestic demand in the home
  • to the structuring of options
  • From demand and supply management
  • renegotiating roles and responsibilities

3
The future meaning and status of domestic water
consumption
  • From the citizen through to consumer
  • From economic to the environmental, social and
    cultural
  • From the individual through to the collective
  • Needs, rights and responsibilities

4
The changing dynamics of practice
  • How are different practices changing and with
    what implications for the future?
  • Are people engaging in practices in different
    ways?
  • What might be the impact of changing technologies?

5
The future structuring of options
  • How far are existing practices taken for granted
    (by regulation, resource management?) and
    embedded in the infrastructure?
  • What forms of infrastructure provision are being
    explored for the future
  • Changing scales of provision?
  • Moves to the co-production of supply and
    demand?
  • Generalised versus specialised systems of
    provision
  • What kinds of organisations might be involved?
    How might they be structured?

6
Future crisis points
  • How are current interventions likely to shape
    future responsibilities?
  • How do failures in forecasting translate into a
    crisis of provision?
  • What might be the scale and scope of future
    crises and of strategies for managing them?
  • What future crises are already in the making?

7
A research agenda
  • What are the baselines of current water
    practices? In what ways are they changinggt How
    are they being shaped?
  • What are the different pathways through which
    options are structured? What pathways are being
    constructed for the future?
  • How to balance the demand for certainty in supply
    side management, and supply of uncertainty
    generated by demand side management?
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