Firefighting Water - Required Volume Flow
Water demand for firefighting can be estimated as
Q = 1020 n1/2 (1 - 0.01 n1/2) (1)
where
Q = water demand (gpm)
n = population of people (in thousands)
- 1 US gal/min (gpm) = 0.227 m3/h
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