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: Received: 9 May 2024 / Approved: 10 May 2024 / Online: 10 May 2024 (11:31:14 CEST)
How to cite:
Barreiros, A.; Durão, A.; Galvão, A.; Matos, C.; Mateus, D.; Araújo, I.; Neves, L.; Mourato, S. HEI Students Literacy on Sustainable Use of Potable Water. Preprints2024, 2024050638. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202405.0638.v1
Barreiros, A.; Durão, A.; Galvão, A.; Matos, C.; Mateus, D.; Araújo, I.; Neves, L.; Mourato, S. HEI Students Literacy on Sustainable Use of Potable Water. Preprints 2024, 2024050638. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202405.0638.v1
Barreiros, A.; Durão, A.; Galvão, A.; Matos, C.; Mateus, D.; Araújo, I.; Neves, L.; Mourato, S. HEI Students Literacy on Sustainable Use of Potable Water. Preprints2024, 2024050638. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202405.0638.v1
APA Style
Barreiros, A., Durão, A., Galvão, A., Matos, C., Mateus, D., Araújo, I., Neves, L., & Mourato, S. (2024). HEI Students Literacy on Sustainable Use of Potable Water. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202405.0638.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Barreiros, A., Luis Neves and Sandra Mourato. 2024 "HEI Students Literacy on Sustainable Use of Potable Water" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202405.0638.v1
Abstract
High Education Institutions (HEI) play a key role in fostering sustainability since students will be future active society members. By providing them with the knowledge, skills, and mindset needed to address environmental challenges, they can contribute to increase sustainability in a long-term approach. With the effects of climate change strongly affecting water availability across planet, it is increasingly relevant to understand if higher education students are aware of this situation, to develop adequate measures to promote sustainable behaviors regarding water uses. This study aimed to assess students’ perceptions regarding water efficiency through a questionnaire submitted in 7 HEI in Portugal. Students recognized the importance of water with older students, women and science students demonstrating a greater awareness. Inspite of this 27% students do not know what the average water consumption in Portugal is and only 18% accurately reported the consumption range in Portugal. There is also a lack of knowledge (>50% students) if common water efficiency measures are applied in their HEI. The main information sources identified by the students were “social communication” and “internet/social media”, revealing that water efficiency knowledge transfer in high education can be improved.
Keywords
Education Institutions; SDG; Sustainability; Water efficiency; Water use
Subject
Environmental and Earth Sciences, Environmental Science
Copyright:
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