A Tool to Measure the Knowledge of Water Resource Management at Domestic Level

The growth of industries in the Indian context is highly phenomenal in different segments; one among them is the field of water management. According to Central Pollution Control Board, 90% of the water supplied in India to the town and cities are polluted, out of which only 1.6% gets treated. Therefore, water quality management is fundamental for the human welfare (Gupta1991). Globally water management has become a vital problem due to the depletion in the water sources, increase in population, pollution and global warming. The demand for water and water treatment is a never ending phenomenon in human life owing to the growth in population, technological and industrial development, depletion in natural water resources etc.  In this context knowledge about water, understanding the importance of water treatment and developing an attitude towards water treatment are of utmost importance. In this direction the industrial growth and development towards water treatment is the present scenario of industrial sector. We observe ‘world water day March 22^ndin order to remind the people the importance of water in human life. But still people are not aware of and they lack sufficient knowledge about water.  The general public are to be educated in the directions of significance of water, knowledge about water treatment and various technologies behind water treatment particularly technology behind water treatment and its worthiness.

This necessitated the researcher to develop a research tool to measure the knowledge of water resource management at domestic level. Initially the tool was constructed with 33 statements and administered to 300 domestic people. In order to standardize the tool the researcher applied Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, Cronbach Alpha test and ‘t’ test.  After the item analysis 25 statements were considered for the final Tool.