Public opinion on water reuse applications in Turkey

Nowadays, water resources are rapidly polluted and run out importance. Depending on the population growth, water demand and wastewater generation will increase in the future. Many communities throughout the world are approaching, or have already reached, the limits of their available water supplies. Hence, water reclamation and reuse have almost become necessary for conserving and extending available water supplies. The recycling and reusing of water have a great importance. However, negative response of the public on water reuse creates some problems in application. Therefore, public should be informed and common fallacies needs to be changed. This study was planned and a survey sheet (questionnaire) was prepared. There are some questions related with participant?s age, gender, education, income range and fifteen questions about water reuse in the survey. This questionnaire was sent to different regions of Turkey and 375 questionnaires were returned. Questionnaires after collection, these data was evaluated with SPSS statistical analysis and excel programs. The results of survey studies will be given opinion of Turkish people on water reuse applications. According to study results; participants have suspicion about reuse of treated wastewater.