Visualizing Seasonal Variation in Water Usage
Customer billing data serves as an input and boundary condition in water distribution system hydraulic models. Determining the total load on a system is one of the fundamental purposes of water system modeling. Customer use varies with time of day and time of year; these variations are often distilled down to a daily average. This Average Daily Demand works as a base test case for system improvements and infrastructure planning. Usage records in tabular format were used to create a short animation of demand variation, visualizing both demand hot spots in the system and how the load changes with the seasons.