Social responsibility and its economical impact on society: water usage reporting and water losses

Abstract

The aim of the paper is to emphasize responsibility of individual apartment building house-holds over their water consumption and correct reporting, and demonstrate the financial impact that so-cially irresponsible water consumption reporting has on individuals’ monthly utility payments. Quantita-tive research method, based on actual data analysis, has been used to analyse the economical impact of water losses caused by irresponsible reporting. The paper forms a part of a more extensive research. The findings shall also reflect what economical impact on payment for the consumed water amount can be made by irresponsible actions of the household residents.