Domestic Water Consumption in Hong Kong

Water consumption is a popular issue for people all over the world. Domestic water consumption is considered as the major water usage. Apart from the development hardware for water saving, we would investigate the correlation between family factors and the domestic water consumptions in order to propose different strategies for reducing the domestic water consumption. We collected water bills and replied questionnaires from 100 numbers of families in Hong Kong. The water bills show the actual water consumptions of the families in 7 consecutive months. The replied questionnaires collect the floor areas of the apartments, family incomes, ages, education levels etc. from the families. Statistical analysis was adopted to investigate the correlation between the family factors to the water consumption. The major family factor will be used to propose management strategy to reduce the water consumption.