Assessment of consumers’ perceotion about the use of water in the pandemic: a case study conducted in the Metropolitan region of Belo Horizonte
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https://doi.org/10.6008/CBPC2318-2881.2022.002.0010Keywords:
Consumption, Conscious, Water, PandemicAbstract
This article aims to investigate the profile of water consumption during the pandemic period caused by the new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), analyzing the behavioral specificities of the population in this new everyday reality, limited to the perception of water consumers in the region. metropolitan region of Belo Horizonte. A field research proposal was adopted with different users from the municipalities of Belo Horizonte, Betim, Contagem, Ibirité and Ribeirão das Neves, in the state of Minas Gerais, evaluating the behavior of water consumption during the Covid-19 pandemic in the months of April to September, from 2019 and 2020. It was noticed that there was an increase in water consumption for 65% of respondents in view of the routine changes caused by Covid-19. In all the homes studied, it was identified that water consumption occurred through washing clothes, bathing and washing cars, representing, therefore, an opportunity to adopt practices aimed at saving water.
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