Look to the utilities as to seasonal variances that reflect consumption with occupancy.How much money are we talking here?

@Marcus Auerbach I wonder if you assume that the cash flow from cash flow properties an investor owns goes into consumption by the investor? 

I’d imagine conspicuous consumption and recreation would be the first cutbacks from someone’s budget in a crunch.

Underlying functions apply, marginal propensities of economics, finance and accounting apply:Look up marginal propensity of;Consumption, investment, productivity, labor, profit, probability, value theory and utility.These understandings will make the MIRR dance for you in forecasting. 

Alcohol consumption and underage drinking actually increased under prohibition.

All of these questions need to be answered now, and you should speak to a trusted attorney.Finally, you need to prevent yourself from getting caught in conspicuous consumption trap of buying things you don’t need in order to impress others.

It's without doubt several factors, but a major piece to it is the U.S. flipped from a production and export economy, too a almost purely consumption economy. 

City water department so there's no way that that could happen but once a spring check valve was installed on the line that stop the high water consumption being registered on the meter even though nothing was leaking.

So it seems like Vegas has certainly figured out a solution that is more long term and AZ is taking steps to mitigate water shortages in the future by reliance on other sources than the CO river, but southern CA may have a real issue unless farms there significantly reduce their consumption in order to favor residential use over agricultural.

EU consumption is far, far greater and this has immediate impact on them.And Western Europe doesn't/didn't want US gas.