ADAPTATION BEHAVIOR TOWARDS WATER

INTERRUPTION AND THE SOCIO-CULTURAL

ASPECTS OF WATER SUPPLY AND SANITATION
IN SELECTED BARANGAYS
RATIONALE

• Introduction
The rivers represent the major source of water used for human consumption, culture
irrigation, and industrial purposes. Efficient management of these water resources requires
information about the river water quality and its variability. This need is quite marked in
semi-arid countries such as Morocco whose water resources are becoming increasingly
difficult to renew, due to their over exploitation by rapidly growing population. The
deterioration of river water quality water can result from natural processes and more
recently due to
anthropogenic activities through the discharge of industrial and domestic wastewater as well as agricultural drainage to
the rivers.
However, the big bulk of rivers’ pollution comes from industrial and domestic wastewater and agricultural drainage
(Carpenter et al., 1998; Jarvie et al., 1998). Seasonal variations in both of these anthropogenic and natural processes such
as temperature and precipitations, affect the quality of river water and lead to different attributes between seasons (Vega
et al., 1998). Therefore, regularly monitoring and evaluating the quality of river water are required for integrated
management of these water resources (Singh et al., 2005). For monitoring the quality of river water, sampling networks
seem to bean excellent source of information for local and temporal vision of the state of the water of the river. These
networks provide an overview of the temporal condition as well as seasonal and geographical evolution of the ecosystem
(Berzas et al., 2000; Simeonov et al., 2003). To assist in the processing and analyzing these data that have been
increasing over time, the more appropriate and most used methods are the multivariate statistics.
• Most of the urban wastewater collection systems are combined sewers, i. e., serve for collecting
domestic wastewater and rain water at the same time. Since 1991, municipalities began a plan
which intends, when completed, to separate storm water from domestic waste water. In urban areas
of the West Bank, domestic wastewater is collected in pipes within residential areas and then is left
to flow out in open channels. The extent of collection varies from one area to another and the
services cover from 20% to 75% of the service area. In the remaining 25% to 80% of the urban
wastewater and most of the village or rural areas, wastewater is disposed using septic tanks,
subsurface drainage systems, percolation pits, latrines, or let to flow out of houses in open
channels. Only a few villages have wastewater collection services in the West Bank (Haddad,
1998).
 RESEARCH OBJECTIVES
• This study sought to explore the adaptation behavior towards water interruption and the level of socio-cultural aspects of water supply and sanitation
in selected barangays in Matanao, Davao del Sur. Specifically, this study sought ti explore the following;

1. determine the adaptation behavior towards water interruption in terms of:

1.1. Adoptation
1.2. Perception
1.3. Awareness
1.4. Media
1.5. Intention
1.6. Network

2. assess the level of socio-cultural aspects of water supply and sanitation in terms of:
2.1. Public Health and Environmental Analysis
2.2. Religious and Cultural related
2.3. Knowledge related
2.4. Financial and Economics
CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK

MEDIA AWARENESS
INTENTION BEHAVIOR
NETWORK PERCEPTIO N
METHODOLOGY

• This study is conducted in quantitative and survey methods. Data collection tool was a
questionnaire, and the population was the farmers of Sabzevar, of whom 120 were
selected based on the Cochran formula. Sampling method was stratified. To conduct the
study, a questionnaire was designed for the target group that was composed of different
parts (farmers' individual characteristics, awareness, and understanding toward water
scarcity, desire and behavior).
RESEARCH DESIGN

• This study will be using non-experimental research design.

RESEARCH LOCALE

• This study will be conducted in the selected barangays such as Savoy, Lumbang, and
Kilong which are all located in Matanao, Davao del Sur.
RESEARCH PARTICIPANTS

• The respondents of this study will be the residents coming from the selected barangays in
Matanao, Davao del Sur. The researchers will be using stratified random sampling that
best represents the total population being researched.