Public perception and economic implications of bottled water consumption in underprivileged urban areas

Massoud, May A.; Maroun, R.; Abdelnabi, Hana Daoud Jamal; Jamali, Ibrahim; El‐Fadel, M.

doi:10.1007/s10661-012-2775-x

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“…Given that drinking tap water is perceived as risky, it is not surprising that almost all households have implemented coping strategies to procure safe drinking water including purchasing bottled water, which is commonly perceived as safer to drink than tap water (e.g. Massoud et al ., ; Viscusi et al ., ).…”

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Understanding bottled water consumption in a high‐poverty context: empirical evidence from a small town in Guatemala

Vásquez

2016

Int J Consumer Studies

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This research investigated the determinants of bottled water consumption using household survey data from a small, poor town in Guatemala. Hurdle (two-part) models were estimated to account for 73.3% of sampled households that did not consume bottled water. Findings indicated that the vast majority of respondents perceived minimal health risks from drinking bottled water. In contrast, few respondents (3.2%) believed that tap water is totally safe to drink. Estimation results indicated that bottled water consumption was positively associated to health risk perceptions, household income, education and market access. Household size had a negative effect on the likelihood of consuming bottled water. However, once the household had decided to consume bottled water, its consumption increased with each additional household member.

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Understanding bottled water consumption in a high‐poverty context: empirical evidence from a small town in Guatemala

Vásquez

2016

Int J Consumer Studies

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“…It was shown however, that residents do not trust, in general, the tap water and opt for using bottled water or water from other sources such as the "vending machine" water (groundwater from mountainous wells) which is very common practice in Cyprus. The cost of tap water is lower compared to bottled or "vending machine" water and, thus, it may pose additional burden to household budgets, as it has been shown in other studies (30). Mapping the cost of water by quarter would probably be informative about the existence or not of differences within…”

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Mapping drinking water and quality of life aspects in urban settings: an application of the urban exposome

Andrianou

Lek

Charisiadis

et al. 2018

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Cities face rapid changes leading to increasing inequalities and emerging public health issues that require cost-effective interventions. The urban exposome framework constitutes a novel approach in tackling city-wide challenges, such as those of drinking water quality and quality of life. In this proof-of-concept study, we presented part of the urban exposome of Limassol (Cyprus) focusing on chemical and microbial drinking water quality parameters and their association with urban neighborhood indicators. A perceptions study and an urban population study was conducted. We mapped the water quality parameters and participants’ opinions on city life (i.e. neighborhood life, health care and green space access) using quarters (small administrative areas) as the reference unit of the city. In an exploratory environment-wide association study analysis, we used all variables (questionnaire responses and water quality metrics) to describe correlations between them accounting, also, for self-reported health status. Overall, urban drinking-water quality using conventional indicators of chemical (disinfection byproducts-trihalomethanes) and microbial (coliforms, E. coli, and Enterococci) quality did not raise particular concerns. The general health and chronic health status of the urban participants were significantly (all >FDR corrected p value of 0.1) associated with different health conditions such as hypertension and asthma, or having financial issues in access to dental care. Additionally, correlations between trihalomethanes and participant characteristics (e.g. household cleaning, drinking water habits) were documented. This proof-of-concept study showed the potential of using integrative approaches to develop urban exposomic profiles and identifying within-city differentiated environmental and health indicators. The characterization of the urban exposome of Limassol will be expanded via the inclusion of biomonitoring tools and untargeted metabolomics platforms.

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“…Much of what is known about PDW in cities where the universal provision of drinking water from the tap has never been the norm is through the study of PDW as a consumer product, rather than a form of supply. Consumer research reports assess the contours of the PDW market in various regions to establish who the individual consumers are, what type of water they consume, and how much-in the Philippines [20], Indonesia [3,21], Jordan and Lebanon [22], and globally [5,23]. Reports on the shift of the global market for PDW to lower-and middle-income countries mirror the documentation of demographic trends, noting rise in household consumption of PDW in water and development sector reports, such as in Indonesia [4], Mexico [24], and Lao [25].…”

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“…In her 2017 review on bottled water research, Hawkins identifies the question dominating research globally on bottled water as "why consumers choose PDW over piped water" [27] (p. 3). She also notes that answers to this question have been concentrated in disciplines of business studies and psychology, investigating how marketing strategies have contributed to this expansion of a product which could be had for "free" from the tap [22,[28][29][30][31].…”

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Towards A Situated Urban Political Ecology Analysis of Packaged Drinking Water Supply

Kooy

Walter

2019

Water

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The inclusion of packaged drinking water (PDW) as a potentially improved source of safe drinking water under Goal 6.1 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) reflects its growing significance in cities where piped water has never been universal or safe for drinking. Using the case of PDW in Jakarta, Indonesia, we call for theorizing the politics of PDW through a situated Urban Political Ecology (UPE) analysis of the wider urban water distributions in which it is inserted. We do so in order to interrogate the unevenness of individual "choices" for securing safe drinking water, and highlight the ambiguity of PDW's impact on inequalities in access. We first review research on PDW supply to specify how dominant theoretical approaches used for understanding PDW supply through analyses of the individual making "choices" for drinking water are power neutral, and why this matters for achieving equitable water access. We illustrate these points through a case study of PDW consumption by low income residents in Jakarta, and then identify how a situated UPE framework can help attend to the uneven societal relations shaping different socio-material conditions, within which individual "choices" for PDW are made. For Jakarta, connecting choices of the individual to power relations shaping geographies of urban water access and risk explains the rise in PDW consumption by low income residents as a situated response to the uneven exposure of poorer residents to environmental hazards. We conclude with reflections on how this can inform interventions towards more just distributions of safe drinking water.

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Public perception and economic implications of bottled water consumption in underprivileged urban areas

Cited by 15 publications

References 16 publications

Understanding bottled water consumption in a high‐poverty context: empirical evidence from a small town in Guatemala

Understanding bottled water consumption in a high‐poverty context: empirical evidence from a small town in Guatemala

Mapping drinking water and quality of life aspects in urban settings: an application of the urban exposome

Towards A Situated Urban Political Ecology Analysis of Packaged Drinking Water Supply

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