Seasonal patterns and socio-economic predictors of household rainwater and greywater use

Mason, Lisa Reyes; Arwood, Catherine; Shires, Mary Katherine

doi:10.1080/1573062x.2017.1401098

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“…This indicates a more negative view of GWR by women than by men, which is in agreement with results obtained in other studies (Amaris et al, 2021;Wester et al, 2015), which have been linked to the higher susceptibility of women to associate reuse with high levels of risks (Mankad & Tapsuwan, 2011). However, it is important to highlight that other studies have also found the opposite effect or no relation between gender and water reuse acceptability (Garcia-Cuerva et al, 2016;Mason et al, 2018).…”

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“…Household size is a characteristic that has been previously defined as relevant. For example Mason et al (2018) found that the likelihood of using greywater during dry seasons increases by 24% for each additional household member. Nevertheless, our results complement that information with a more detailed analysis about uses and types of consumers.…”

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Capturing and analysing heterogeneity in residential greywater reuse preferences using a latent class model

Amaris

Gironás

Hess

et al. 2021

Journal of Environmental Management

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Capturing and analysing heterogeneity in residential greywater reuse preferences using a latent class model

Amaris

Gironás

Hess

et al. 2021

Journal of Environmental Management

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“…There is emerging evidence on the existence of seasonal patterns of public interest in psychiatric disorders and conditions [1]. The increasing number of studies on the topic is associated with several factors such as the identification of seasonal patterns of population behavior in humans [2,3] and animals [4] and the realization that understanding temporal variation of public interest in health-related issues has important theoretical as well as practical implications on service planning and delivery [5-7]. The terms "infodemiology" or "infoveillance" were coined to describe novel methods to analyze search and publication behavior (for example, tweets) on the Internet to study trends and human behaviour to inform public health practice and policy [6].…”

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Seasonality Patterns of Internet Searches on Mental Health: Exploratory Infodemiology Study

Soreni¹,

Cameron²,

Streiner³

et al. 2019

JMIR Ment Health

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Background The study of seasonal patterns of public interest in psychiatric disorders has important theoretical and practical implications for service planning and delivery. The recent explosion of internet searches suggests that mining search databases yields unique information on public interest in mental health disorders, which is a significantly more affordable approach than population health studies. Objective This study aimed to investigate seasonal patterns of internet mental health queries in Ontario, Canada. Methods Weekly data on health queries in Ontario from Google Trends were downloaded for a 5-year period (2012-2017) for the terms “schizophrenia,” “autism,” “bipolar,” “depression,” “anxiety,” “OCD” (obsessive-compulsive disorder), and “suicide.” Control terms were overall search results for the terms “health” and “how.” Time-series analyses using a continuous wavelet transform were performed to isolate seasonal components in the search volume for each term. Results All mental health queries showed significant seasonal patterns with peak periodicity occurring over the winter months and troughs occurring during summer, except for “suicide.” The comparison term “health” also exhibited seasonal periodicity, while the term “how” did not, indicating that general information seeking may not follow a seasonal trend in the way that mental health information seeking does. Conclusions Seasonal patterns of internet search volume in a wide range of mental health terms were observed, with the exception of “suicide.” Our study demonstrates that monitoring internet search trends is an affordable, instantaneous, and naturalistic method to sample public interest in large populations and inform health policy planners.

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“…These types of studies are very commonly conducted to understand public willingness or reluctance to practice householdgenerated water reuse. Studies have investigated public acceptability of water reuse from different sources from sewage (e.g., Smith et al 2018) to harvested rainwater (Mason et al 2018) although most focus on greywater reuse (Inbar 2015). In addition to looking at sources of water, perceptions of various end uses are researched, from large scale irrigation to drinking water (Hwang et al 2006;Miller 2012;Ormerod 2016).…”

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Public perceptions and perspectives on alternative sources of water for reuse generated at the household level

Portman

Vdov

Schütze

et al. 2022

Journal of Water Reuse and Desalination

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Studying perceptions about reuse of alternative water sources informs about conditions necessary for transition to large-scale decentralized water reuse. We administered a perceptions survey to the public based on results of initial open interviews of water management experts in Israel. Experts indicated their views on impediments to widespread household water reuse which became the basis for developing the questionnaire. The latter aimed to understand views among the general public of: (a) willingness to adopt reuse practices from three sources: greywater, air conditioner condensate and roof-harvested rainwater; and (b) preferences for targeted use of these three types of reused water. The survey elicited 372 responses. A maximum-likelihood regression analysis was conducted using independent variables (i.e., demographic characteristics, individual positions regarding the state of the country's water resources and plans for the provision of domestic water (i.e., desalination), knowledge of the reuse practices and views about risks from various uses of the reused water, including off-premise). Willingness to implement reuse practices served as the dependent variable. We found that respondents indicating that they heard of the reuse of the particular types of reuse practices (variable: ‘Knowledge’) was the most significant of the independent variables for all three alternative water sources. Also, using an analytic hierarchy process, we determined that health risks were much more important when compared to convenience of use and costs under hypothetical scenarios of both moderate and significant savings in monthly water expenditures.

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Seasonal patterns and socio-economic predictors of household rainwater and greywater use

Cited by 7 publications

References 26 publications

Capturing and analysing heterogeneity in residential greywater reuse preferences using a latent class model

Capturing and analysing heterogeneity in residential greywater reuse preferences using a latent class model

Seasonality Patterns of Internet Searches on Mental Health: Exploratory Infodemiology Study

Public perceptions and perspectives on alternative sources of water for reuse generated at the household level

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