Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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6332266 | Science of The Total Environment | 2014 | 8 Pages |
Abstract
The washbasin is in average the domestic device with more number of uses in a day (responsible for 34% of the total use), close followed by the kitchen sink (32%), the toilet flush (23%), the bathtub (6%) and finally the dishwasher (3%) and the washing machine (2%). The results found might reflect differences in rural and urban lifestyles once that, with the exception of the kitchen sink, Valpaços is the city that registers the lowest number of uses in the appliances monitored. Significant correlations were found in the following cases: between the residence area and the number of uses in washbasin and in the toilet flush; between the presence of children in the household and the use in the dishwasher; between the income level and the number of uses in the washbasin, in the bathtub, in the washing machine and in the dishwasher.
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Authors
Cristina Matos, Carlos A. Teixeira, Ricardo Bento, João Varajão, Isabel Bentes,