Key Strategic Area: Water Use, Wastewater Resources and Sanitation Futures (WUWRSF)
Thrust: 1. WATER SENSITIVE AND RESILIENT SETTLEMENTS
Programme 3: Water efficiency and behaviour change
Title: Strategy for national scaling of behavioural nudges and other associated behaviour change tools
TOR ID: 1009929
Contact Person : Mr Jay Bhagwan jayb@wrc.org.za
Closing Date: 31 July 2022
Brief Description of ToR:
Climate variability, growing urban communities and that of water demand is a situation facing
many developing and developed countries. Besides the gap between demand and supply slowly
being closed and some cases exceeded, the situation is further exacerbated by lack of change is
user and usage behavior. This has been the experience both globally and now locally in the case
of Port Elisabeth, where consumption patterns have responded to the growing rsiks associated
with water stress. Many municipal areas in South Africa are already reaching point of water
stress and find themselves having to manage the demand on their water resources. This need is
likely to become more acute as the economy and population continues to grow, pushing the
areas and country in water scarcity. Historically municipalities have largely relied on engineering
interventions and customer management and education campaigns to, coupled with on tariffs,
technical interventions (such as leakage control) to manage the demand for water. In recent
years however, municipalities, mainly in the developed world, have begun implementing
behavioral economics as a means for more sustainable behaviour change in the use and
management of water.
Proposals must be submitted via the WRC Business Management System at https://wrc.microsoftcrmportals.com/
