Water conservation awareness and practices in households receiving improved water supply: A gender-based analysis
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- 作者：Yan Tong ; Liangxin Fan ; Fanliangxin@126.com" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author ; Haipeng Niu
- 关键词：Domestic water consumption ; Water-use behaviour ; Gender disparity ; Survey ; Rural China
- 刊名：Journal of Cleaner Production
- 出版年：2017
- 出版时间：10 January 2017
- 年：2017
- 卷：141
- 期：Complete
- 页码：947-955
- 全文大小：1154 K
文摘
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Water conservation practice among genders and its effect factors are studied.
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Residents have high consciousness towards water conservation, whereas actual practice is less.
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Female users consume more water and adopt more conservation practices than do male users.
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Gender disparity of water conservation practice and its driving factors lead to ineffective policy.
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Bills transparency and information communication are beneficial to effective policy.