Abstract
In a university, student can be considered as the largest proportion of the campus residents. A university has to allocate high costs to cover student facilities with a very restricted fund. It is important to understand how the student used these facilities. Hence, in this study, a trend of water consumption among student was investigated. The objective is to identify the amount of water usage per person and the difference between genders. To measure the water consumption among student, water meter reading (in litres) was done by observing every block of student’s hostels at randomly selected days within five weeks. The collected water meter reading (in litres) was analysed using descriptive and some statistical hypothesis tests. From the analysis, it was found that the average daily water consumption of students in the residential halls is exceed average water demand which is 250 litres/student that provided by Suruhanjaya Perkhidmatan Air Negara (SPAN). In addition, female student found to consume more water than male student. These outcomes showed that the university should take some initiatives to enhance student awareness on the importance of saving their daily water usage.
Highlights
IntroductionMalaysia can be considered as a fortunate country where there is not much problems to obtains clean water sources for daily usages
Water is one of the most important sources to for all living thing
To identify the amount of water usage per person, the data have to be divided by number of students in a block as different blocks have different number of students
Summary
Malaysia can be considered as a fortunate country where there is not much problems to obtains clean water sources for daily usages. The study on the water consumption trend should be executed to monitor the daily water consumption. In the study of residential water usage, the water consumption is heavily influenced by the number of residential and their daily activities (Domene & Sauri, 2006). This is consistent with the earlier finding by Katimon & Demun (2004) where in universities, the water consumption among the students were vary according to student’s activities. The essential residential activities that consume water for instance are, in food preparation processes, personal cleansing, washing clothes, watering plants and many more
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