Volume 9, Issue 3, November 2014, Pages 1409–1415
Edidiong A. Enoh1, Queendalyn U. Aniere2, and Agwu A. Ndukwe3
1 Department of Environmental Management, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra state, Nigeria
2 Department of Environmental Management, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra state, Nigeria
3 Department of Environmental Management, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra state, Nigeria
Original language: English
Copyright © 2014 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Meeting domestic water requirements has been a very big problem to urban planners. To evaluate the pattern of water supply and use in households in the study area, systematic random sampling technique was used to select the households that were interviewed. Survey questionnaires were employed with which data on water-use characteristics of the respondent households were obtained. A total of 250 households selected at random sampled, and the data obtained were presented in frequency distribution tables, bar charts, pie charts and graphs. The hypothesis formulated were tested using chi-square (x2) test for the goodness of fit. The gross inefficiency in domestic water-use observed among residents in the study area requires that government and NGOs make provision for water to augment the efforts of the private sector, promote sanitation and enforce conservation if water-use is monitored.
Author Keywords: Residential, water, Domestic, Commercial, Conservation.
Edidiong A. Enoh1, Queendalyn U. Aniere2, and Agwu A. Ndukwe3
1 Department of Environmental Management, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra state, Nigeria
2 Department of Environmental Management, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra state, Nigeria
3 Department of Environmental Management, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra state, Nigeria
Original language: English
Copyright © 2014 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
Meeting domestic water requirements has been a very big problem to urban planners. To evaluate the pattern of water supply and use in households in the study area, systematic random sampling technique was used to select the households that were interviewed. Survey questionnaires were employed with which data on water-use characteristics of the respondent households were obtained. A total of 250 households selected at random sampled, and the data obtained were presented in frequency distribution tables, bar charts, pie charts and graphs. The hypothesis formulated were tested using chi-square (x2) test for the goodness of fit. The gross inefficiency in domestic water-use observed among residents in the study area requires that government and NGOs make provision for water to augment the efforts of the private sector, promote sanitation and enforce conservation if water-use is monitored.
Author Keywords: Residential, water, Domestic, Commercial, Conservation.
How to Cite this Article
Edidiong A. Enoh, Queendalyn U. Aniere, and Agwu A. Ndukwe, “RESIDENTIAL WATER USE IN ONITSHA NORTH LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, ANAMBRA STATE, NIGERIA,” International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 1409–1415, November 2014.
