Bottled or Tap Water? Factors Explaining Consumption and Measures to Promote Tap Water

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11690%2F24%3A10492203" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11690/24:10492203 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=tR9E-.6iaR" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=tR9E-.6iaR</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/w16203011" target="_blank" >10.3390/w16203011</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Bottled or Tap Water? Factors Explaining Consumption and Measures to Promote Tap Water

Original language description

The production and consumption of plastic bottled water have several negative environmental impacts worldwide. To identify the barriers and motivations for drinking tap and bottled water, we conducted a nationally representative questionnaire survey among 3411 respondents in the Czech Republic in 2022. People aged 18-34 are moderate consumers of bottled water and very frequent consumers of tap water. Bottled water consumption tends to be less frequent among people with a higher education, while tap water consumption is less frequent among people with lower incomes. The most important factors that explain the frequency of drinking bottled and tap water are taste perception, health concerns and habit. Health concerns about tap water and the unpleasant taste of tap water increase the consumption of bottled water. People with a strong habit of drinking tap water are less likely to consume bottled water. The constructs from the theory of planned behaviour were statistically significant. The results can guide decision-makers in promoting tap water to consumers. To encourage tap water drinking, we suggest measures to increase the availability of tap water in public places in conjunction with campaigns targeting the taste and health perception, as well as the habit, of drinking tap water.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10511 - Environmental sciences (social aspects to be 5.7)

Project

<a href="/en/project/TL03000252" target="_blank" >TL03000252: Tap Water or Bottled Water: Barriers and Motivations to Consume Drinking Water</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Water

ISSN

2073-4441

e-ISSN

2073-4441

Volume of the periodical

16

Issue of the periodical within the volume

20

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

23

Pages from-to

3011

UT code for WoS article

001341433200001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85207326849