Knowledge, attitude and behaviors of students about water consumption in some faculties of the university

Higher Education Students’ Necessity to Be Educated About the Concept of Water Footprint

“…Overall, university students perceive that the impact of the five presented actionsbehaviors neither increases nor decreases their personal WF, thus revealing that they lack knowledge of what in reality impacts it. These findings are in line with the findings of Çamur et al [14], who reported that the university students who participated in their study have a lack of knowledge about water resources and water consumption.…”

“…Çamur et al [14] found that the students that had a prior knowledge of the concept of WF had more environmentally friendly attitudes towards water use. The pedagogical approaches developed to date that target the WF concept attempt to make students aware of the impacts of their everyday activities on water resources.…”

“…As for research on WF and education, there are only a handful of studies (to our knowledge) that focus on teaching university students the concept of WF [e.g., [10][11][12][13]. The aim of these studies is to make students aware of the impacts of their daily activities on water resources by calculating their WF and suggesting ways to change their behavior to reduce these impacts [10,11] The study by Çamur et al [14] is the only study exclusively aimed at assessing university students' perceptions of the WF concept. They found a lack of knowledge about water resources and water consumption and found that students who know about WF have a more environmentally friendly attitude.…”

“…On the other hand, similar efforts for WF are much fewer [e.g., [10][11][12][13]. To our knowledge, there is only one study that deals exclusively with the perceptions of university students on WF, namely Çamur et al [14].…”