Investigation of Peak Water Consumption Variability at Local Scale in Puglia (Southern Italy)

In this study an analysis of the water supply variability for three towns in Puglia (Southern Italy), Roccaforzata, Palagianello and Palagiano was carried out, based on a time series continuously recorded over three years. The towns’ population ranges between 1800 and 16,000 inhabitants and the flow data, collected with time steps of 10 min, are referred to drinking water in urban environment. In particular the frequency analysis on the series of daily maximum hourly peak coefficients, calculated using the observed dataset, was conducted in order to assess the stochastic behavior of the hourly peak water demand at local scale.