Policy Note: Digital Feedback-Based Interventions for Water Conservation

Progress in water conservation is dependent as much on human behavior the promise of new technologies. Digital feedback-based interventions present an opportunity to bring these two factors together, increasingly sophisticated technologies can help change behaviors rather than simply solving problems caused by those behaviors. This paper explores various options and opportunities for adopting — that communicate information purpose encouraging individuals alter consumption habits. Lessons proposed are applicable any realm which individual contributes a collective environmental or social problem. Focusing five determinants success (design, delivery, content, integration, commitment), this presents findings related studies fashions them into suite recommendations serves template practice agenda future research. The underlying theme technology no absolute substitute behavioral but be one catalyst it broader discussions about relationship between systems environment.