Promoting GW saving behaviour is one of the strategies to support sustainable groundwater use and management and climate change adaptation. However, few studies paid attention to GW saving behaviours. To address this, we surveyed GW users (N = 338) to investigate factors influencing current GW saving attitudes and how GW saving behaviour is shaped in the community through the theory of planned behaviour (TPB). Participants were asked about the perception of their GW saving and water saving intentional behaviour. The probit regression use deployed explore factors influencing water users' perception of GW saving. Structural Equation Model (SEM) was also used to construct the TPB variables to investigate psychological factors influencing GW saving intention behaviour. The findings show water users in the agricultural sector (8 =-0.98, p = 0.01) are negative with GW saving bahavior. Changing to the users in the agricultural sector, the self-perception of GW saving tends to decrease in z-score by 0.98 at a statistical significance level. Awareness of GW extraction impacts (8 = 0.89, p = 0.002), GW adequate knowledge and information (8 = 1.16, p = 0.015) and GW tariff (8 = 0.78, p = 0.02) have strongly influenced GW saving behaviour. The GW saving intentional behaviour has been influenced by sub-jective norms (8 = 0.52, p < 0.001) and perceived behavioral control (8 = 0.21, p < 0.001). Our findings suggest that GW policy options should pay attention to GW tariff application, awareness raising about GW impacts, GW knowledge dissemination to control GW abstraction in the community and enhance GW water saving attitude and behaviour in the community. The study also appeals to the engagement of local community in water governance to increase the social pressures on water-saving changing behaviors.
Muenratch, P; Nguyen, TPL
Determinants of water use saving behaviour toward sustainable groundwater management
Groundwater For Sustainable Development