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What do we mean by water “demand”?

Posted by jfleck on 27 July 2017, 11:36 am

Whether Aspen needs to build a reservoir to meet water demands in 2065 may depend in part on whether it wants to keep irrigating its municipal golf course during an apocalyptic drought.

Nice bit of framing by Brent Gardner-Smith.

Experience tells us the answer – that when people have less water, they use less water. I wrote a book about that.

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