Drinking Water Supply as a Factor for Decisions to Change Housing – Views of Inhabitants in a Nation-Wide Questionnaire Survey

Abstract

The paper deals with the issue of drinking water supply as a factor for changing housing and presents selected results of the implemented questionnaire survey in the Czech Republic from the perspective of Czech inhabitants over the age of 15. The paper presents the particular outputs of project no. TL02000060 entitled "Availability of Drinking Water for Inhabitants of Small Municipalities as an Indicator of the Socioeconomic Development of Society", which was created with the support of the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic.

Relationships between Insufficient Drinking Water Supply and the Socio-Economic Development of Small Municipalities: Mayors’ Opinions from the Czech Republic

“…The limited capacity of water sources for supplying new households with drinking water from the expanding network of water supply infrastructure is manifesting itself in individual cases as a limiting factor to this development [33,34]. According to sociological surveys hitherto, inhabitants of the Czech Republic see the security of drinking water as a fundamental water supply issue [35], which also influences their selection of immovable property for their own housing [36].…”

“…The supply of drinking water is an important factor in the selection of a place to live. As a survey carried out in the Czech Republic has shown [36], the most important factor for decisions on a change of place of residence in respondents' minds is the "Drinking water supply situation". In municipalities with a good-quality and high-capacity provision of water supply connections, the possibility arises for new housing construction or the development of entrepreneurial activity [12,25,39].…”