Almost 90 percent of Spanish citizens drought or the scarcity of rains and more 82 percent think human action affects “a lot” or “enough” in this situationAs reflected this Wednesday by the May barometer of the Center for Sociological Studies (CIS).
The survey of 4,030 Spaniards shows that drought or lack of rain worries 53.1 percent “a lot” and 36.1 percent “quite a lot”. up to 10.2 percent care little or nothing. Specifically, 8.1 percent of those surveyed had little concern, compared to 2.1 percent of those who were not at all concerned.
Human impact on drought
In addition, the sociological barometer of May gave the Spaniards, action of people i.e. industry, cars, gases, construction or consumption affects drought.
In this sense, 51.3 percent believe that human action affected “a lot” in this drought, while 30.9 percent believe it affected “somewhat”. In this case, the proportion of those who say that the anthropogenic action affects “very little” increases to 10.9 percent, while for 3.8 percent it does not affect “at all”.
And in this case, 70.7 percent of Spaniards changed their daily practices promoting water conservation in their daily lives compared to 29 percent of those who did not make any changes.
Spaniards adapt their habits
among the main habit changes68.6 percent of the citizens took a shower from the bathroom and 36.1 percent of them are trying to use their water-using devices such as washing machines and dishwashers efficiently.
In third place, the CIS highlights the habit of placing a bucket to collect water while waiting for the hot water to come out for later watering or bathing, among the main measures taken by the Spaniards, a rate of 27.7 percent. citizens.
Another of the main measures according to the CIS is Reducers of water flow in faucets or diffusers in the shower or water conditioners in faucets, A measure adopted by 25.8 percent of the 70.7 percent of Spaniards who changed their water habits, with an additional 18 percent minimizing toilet capacity by changing their habits to use the toilet more efficiently. cistern or limit its use.
However, when looking at the total number of participants, 48.5 percent of the two measures they think should be used to save water consumption at home think that the most appropriate thing is to take a shower instead of taking a bath, while 25.6 percent find it more appropriate to take a shower. He guesses he’ll have to install flow reducers on faucets or diffusers on shower heads.
Among those who changed their habits, 78 percent of the 2,850 respondents, a little over 4,000 total, take a shower instead of a bath; 42.5 percent use their water-using devices efficiently, 22.4 percent put buckets to collect water until hot water comes out of the shower.
However, the total number of participants (4,030) 43.3 percent believe the largest water consumption in Spain is in agriculture, not in homesthose who think that the most water consumption comes from industry, with 40.6 percent; Those who believe that the largest consumption is due to theme parks with 30.5 percent of the tourist activity, followed by 26.4 percent, are those who state that the first water consumption center in Spain is the house with 22.4 percent.
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