Adaptive heating control system for a water heater

A water heating control system for automatically reducing delay in delivering a volume of water at a flowrate, the volume of water is heated from a first temperature to a target temperature during a time interval of a day, said water heating control system comprising:

• (a) a device for aiding in heating the volume of water at said flowrate from said first temperature to said target temperature;
• (b) a historical flow demand corresponding to the time interval of a day;
• (c) a current flow demand corresponding to the time interval of a day;
• and
• (d) a controller configured for calculating a new flow demand based on said historical flow demand and said current flow demand, wherein said new flow demand is configured to be calculated by applying a first weighting factor to said historical flow demand to result in a first intermediate result and a second weighting factor to said current flow demand to result in a second intermediate result, wherein said second weighting factor is a complementary percentage of said first weighting factor,
• wherein if said new flow demand exceeds a threshold, said device is configured to be activated during the time interval of a day and said new flow demand is configured to be set as said historical flow demand for the time interval of a day.