WaterBS: Water Consumption in Basel

Description Format Details Source Examples

Description

Water consumption in the canton Basel-Stadt and Basel-Land municipality Binningen.

Format

WaterBSm: A monthly univariate time series from 2005(1) to 2018(10).

WaterBSy: A yearly multiple time series from 1979 to 2017.

hhb

Water consumption by households and businesses in 1000 m^3,

major

Water consumption by major clients in 1000 m^3,

fountains

Water consumption by public fountains in 1000 m^3,

public

Public water consumption other than for fountains in 1000 m^3,

iwb

Own water use of IWB (Industrielle Werke Basel) in 1000 m^3,

loss

Water grid loss in 1000 m^3,

total

Total water consumption (including grid loss) in 1000 m^3,

percap.mean

Mean daily per capita water consumption in liters,

percap.max

Maximum daily per capita water consumption in liters.

Details

Previous observations in the monthly dataset WaterBSm may have been corrected (???). fountains in the yearly data WaterBSy measures the water consumption by urban public fountains operated by IWB (Industrielle Werke Basel). The per capita values are calculated based on the water tariff in the corresponding supply area (canton Basel-Stadt or Binningen), without tranfers to other municipalities outside the supply area.

Source

Bureau of Statistics of the canton of Basel-Stadt, Basel, Switzerland:

http://www.statistik.bs.ch/zahlen/tabellen/2-raum-landschaft-umwelt.html (accessed 2019-01-25).

Examples

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data("WaterBSm")

plot(WaterBSm)

CKdata documentation built on May 2, 2019, 4:51 p.m.

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