EXPLORATION OF DOMESTIC WATER DEMAND ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIOURS USING AN ONLINE SURVEY IN ATHENS, GREECE

摘要

The urban water system's sustainable evolution requires tools that can analyse and simulate the complete cycle including both physical and cultural environments. One of the main challenges is to understand the society's water demand behaviour and the way policy measures affect it. The effects of these policy measures are a function of personal opinions that subsequently lead to the formation of people's attitudes. These attitudes will eventually form behaviours.An online survey was developed that aims in gathering information regarding the domestic water attitudes and behaviours of urban households. The online survey was addressed in Athens' residents and requested information regarding the environmental consciousness and the attitudes regarding water conservation. Additionally, the respondents were asked to identify the water appliances they use in their household and the number of times they use each appliance per day. Finally, the respondents were asked to identify the number of times that they were going to use each of their household water appliances if they were aiming to a low or high water conservation level.This work presents the design and the analysis of the results of the online questionnaire. It presents conclusions derived about the attitude of Athenian households towards water conservation. Finally, this work proposes focal points that decision makers might want to concentrate their efforts so as to increase the effects of water demand management measures.