In 1967 one of the authors of this paper found that a regression equation relating per‐capita daily municipal water use to per‐capita income was a relatively good fit for data for a number of cities and towns in New Mexico. In 1974 this equation was fitted again for 1970 data for New Mexico towns, and the regression equation was practically identical with that found in 1967. Thus per‐capita income seems to be a good predictor of per‐capita municipal water use. Price (the water rate) and climatological variables were not significant in the regression, perhaps as a result of insufficiently precise data.
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Berry et al. (1974) studied this question.
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