Assessing water conservation behaviour of India's urban households

Sudheer Bhakta S; Lewlyn LR Rodrigues; K. V. Sriram

doi:10.1016/j.jup.2023.101547

Assessing water conservation behaviour of India's urban households

Sudheer Bhakta S
, Lewlyn LR Rodrigues^*
, K. V. Sriram

^*Corresponding author for this work

Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal

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Abstract

This research aims to develop and validate a questionnaire for the investigation of behavioural water conservation across four themes: demand curtailment, efficiency in use, reduction in losses, and rainwater harvesting. To do so, we operationalised the item purification method of the Delphi process. Subsequently, using confirmatory factor analysis with structural equation modelling, the items were subjected to questionnaire validation tests having 367 valid responses from Indian households. This approach resulted in a water conservation behaviour questionnaire with 54 items reduced from the original 161 items. The findings demonstrate the reliability of the scale psychometrics developed in this study.

Original language	English
Article number	101547
Journal	Utilities Policy
Volume	82
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jup.2023.101547
Publication status	Published - 06-2023

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Business and International Management
Development
Sociology and Political Science
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

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