Taking the public seriously: the case of potable and non potable reuse

Marks, June

doi:10.1016/j.desal.2005.04.074

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“…We assume people may have thought of not feeling clean after using technologically recycled water. These results are in line with earlier studies regarding public acceptance preferences of recycled water [26,27]. It has repeatedly been found that the public is rather open to using recycled water for activities involving low personal contact and rather less open to usage in those with high personal contact [18,19].…”

Section: Relevance Of Reuse and Estimation Of Acceptable Usagesupporting

confidence: 82%

What Germany’s University Beginners Think about Water Reuse

Schmid

Bogner

2018

Water

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Water reuse is a new technology, not yet implemented, but discussed for use in Germany. Public opinion plays a major role in the success of the introduction of this new technology and was not yet analyzed for Germany. When monitoring 340 university beginners' conceptions regarding water reuse, a variety of conceptions appeared. While usage of tap water is accepted for drinking purposes, acceptance of recycled water for oral consumption was low. When asked for reasons for (not) using recycled water, three groups of respondents were extracted: (a) The acceptors (convinced of quality, or naming sustainability as a reason); (b) the undecided (doubts about quality, rejection of its use for consumption, and psychological conflicts of logic and disgust); (c) the non-acceptors (unconvinced of quality and preference for bottled water). When asked about factors that would lead to accepting the use of recycled water, insights into treatment processes were identified as the most convincing, followed by educational films and guided tours. Participants showed high conviction about currently existing tap-water qualities. Having water that is cleaned before it reaches the consumer was reported to have high priority. To increase acceptance of water reuse, recommendations for appropriate outreach programs are discussed.

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Section: Relevance Of Reuse and Estimation Of Acceptable Usagesupporting

confidence: 82%

What Germany’s University Beginners Think about Water Reuse

Schmid

Bogner

2018

Water

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“…Despite this, the concept 17 of drinking wastewater does not have wide public support. Several public consultation 18 studies explore reasons for this resistance, and how to gain community support (for 19 example, Marks, 2003;Baggett et al, 2006;Marks, 2006). In some instances cultural 20 issues or even spiritual or religious relationships to water are important (Strang, 21 2004).…”

Section: Management Institute (Iwmi) 2006)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Desalinated versus recycled water: Public perceptions and profiles of the accepters

Dolničar

Schäfer

2009

Journal of Environmental Management

264

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Many countries' water resources are limited in both quantity and quality. While engineering solutions can now safely produce recycled and desalinated water from non-potable sources at a relatively low cost, the general public is sceptical about adopting these alternative water sources. Social scientists need to better understand what is causing this lack of acceptance by the general population and how acceptance levels for recycled and desalinated water can be increased. This study is the first to conduct a comparative analysis of knowledge, perceptions, acceptability, and determine segments of residents who are more open-minded than the general population toward the use of recycled and desalinated water. The Australian population once perceived desalinated water as environmentally unfriendly, and recycled water as a public health hazard. The general level of knowledge about these two concepts as potential water sources has historically been low. After nearly five years of serious drought, accompanied by severe water restrictions across most of the country, and subsequent media attention on solutions to water scarcity, Australians now show more acceptance of desalinated water for close-to-body uses, and less resistance to recycled water for garden watering and cleaning uses. The types of people likely to be strong accepters of the two alternative water sources are distinctly different groups, and can be reached through different media mixes. This finding has significant implications for policy makers.

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“…The principle behind the successful community-led total sanitation approach, as a means to ending open defecation in developing countries, is to create awareness in the community and have end-users design, build and operate their own sanitation systems to end open defecation practices in the villages at stake (Kar & Chambers, 2008;. But also in the developed world, taking on board end-user perspectives in the planning, design and operation of pilot projects for new sanitation has proved to be a crucial success factor (Van Vliet & Stein, 2004;Marks, 2006;Van Vliet, 2006;Hegger et al, 2007;Van Timmeren, 2008). Levels of consumer participation in experimenting with or implementing new sanitation systems may differ widely around the globe, but it is fair to conclude that context specific socio-cultural concerns and standards of comfort, hygiene and cleanliness that end-users uphold are major factors that must be dealt with for a successful implementation.…”

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confidence: 99%

Sanitation under challenge: contributions from the social sciences

2011

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This paper reviews the contribution the social sciences can make to the challenge of providing access to sustainable sanitation services and infrastructures for billions of people, in both the over- and underdeveloped parts of the world. The paper reviews and discusses three particular social scientific topics relevant for the sanitation challenge: the nature of socio-technical change, the issue of multilevel governance, and the role of the citizen-consumer. It is argued that sanitation is as much a social as it is a technical issue, and that the role of social scientific knowledge needs to be strengthened and given more attention in this context. The key contribution from the social sciences is to be found in its capacity to help widen the narrow, technical definitions of sanitation by including actors and their needs and belief systems, and by highlighting the alternative socio-technical tools and governance arrangements that are instrumental in moving beyond some of the dead-end roads of traditional water engineering and sanitation provision.

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Taking the public seriously: the case of potable and non potable reuse

Cited by 105 publications

References 6 publications

What Germany’s University Beginners Think about Water Reuse

What Germany’s University Beginners Think about Water Reuse

Desalinated versus recycled water: Public perceptions and profiles of the accepters

Sanitation under challenge: contributions from the social sciences

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