Nationwide, the number of single households continues to rise.
Worse still, other authorities bear down simultaneously on vulnerable single households.
Updated at 10.41am GMT 11.58am GMT Why do single households waste more?
The rules do not apply to private wells that serve single households.
Aomori has a proportion of elderly and single households somewhat above the national average.
Single people is certainly an area we've been talking to retailers about, about providing portions to single households".
In Greece and Spain adult children with families are moving back in with their parents, several generations are living in single households with one breadwinner between them.
Researchers forecast that amount will hit £1.52bn by 2013 because of rising affluence, more women in work and a greater number of twenty-something shoppers and single households.
The government white paper of December 2011 predicted that the combination of a higher population with more single households would push up demand for water by around 5% by 2020 and by as much as 35% by 2050.
According to the city's request for proposals from developers, the apartments at the two complexes are to be affordable to a family of four earning $56,720 to $116,985 and single households earning $39,700 to $81,890.
The picture varied by country, however – for example carbon dioxide emissions from Swedish single households were 10,700 kg/year for men and 8,500 kg/year for women.
