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The reductions in water use achieved by urban households in California during the recent drought are well documented. What is not documented is how those reductions were achieved. In this paper, we report on survey data from the Los Angeles and San Francisco Bay Areas describing the water conservation activities undertaken. We also examine variation in water conservation activities across households and adjust statistically for social desirability biases in the self-reports.
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Thanks go to UCLA's Survey Research Center for the data collection and especially to Eve Fielder, the Director, who took a particular interest in the study. We are also indebted to the Save the Earth Foundation for funding the earlier research projects that made the data collection for this paper possible. Finally, we wish to express our appreciation to three reviewers who helped us clarify a number of arguments in the paper.
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Berk, R.A., Schulman, D., McKeever, M. et al. Measuring the impact of water conservation campaigns in California. Climatic Change 24, 233–248 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01091831
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