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Factors Affecting Consumption by Hotel Guests

SOCIAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS AFFECTING WATER AND ENERGY CONSUMPTION BY HOTEL

A the touch of a tap, a person located in El Paso, Texas has sufficient water for drinking, cooking, bathing, lawn watering, car washing, filling a swimming pool, and sundry other uses (Postel, 1994, p. 17). Meanwhile, in Lodwar, Kenya, a person must spend hours traveling to a well or a spring in hopes of obtaining a minimal amount of water for drinking and cooking (Postel, 1994, p. 17). The average family in El Paso uses approximately 3,000 liters of water on a typical day, while the average family in Lodwar is lucky if two liters is available on a typical day (Postel, 1994, p. 17). One would suppose that water is much more plentiful and cheap in El Paso than in Lodwar. Such a supposition would be only partly correct. Relative to income levels, water is much cheaper in El Paso than in Lodwar. In terms of water supply, however, the two communities are more alike than they are different. Both El Paso and Lodwar are low rainfall areasapproximately 16to18 centimeters per year. In both communities, water demand is far more than can be supplied through local resources. How then does El Paso have water when Lodwar does not? The answer is that El Paso diverts water from distant sources to the community. The residents of El Paso, thus, are shielded from the reality of water scarcity. A scenario similar to that for water can be sketched in relation to energy supply and energy use.

The relevance of the above illustration to the research study being proposed is the point that many, perhaps most, communities in the United States are living in sort of a dream state with respect to water and energy. At some point, probably in the near future rather than the far future, realities must be confronted. Many industrial users of water and energy in the United States are finding that these realities must be faced in the mid1990s.

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