Role of leadership behavior to promote rational water utilization and conservation practices (A study of Gandhinagar city in Gujarat)

Abstract

This study helps to largest reductions in water use especially in the rational water utilization and conservation practices. The causes of household water conservation are studied using combined survey and data collection through the questionnaire, data based on households in a community that recently experienced severe water storage. The largest reductions in water use, in absolute terms, occurred in households that had been using the most water to begin with. Smaller users often made larger percentage reductions. The most effective conservation steps involved voluntary changes in private behavior as per the Maslow’s mentally revolution theory. Such steps were more likely to arise from Family members, Religion, Social leaders and reformers and Formal institutions. In another hand, Economic motives and Better-educated were also created a good effect in reduction of water use in household for examples, Economic motives were more common in poorer, less well-educated household and Batter-education were more common in younger and more affluent households. Although income and education are important variables in the model, their direct and indirect effects nearly cancel each other out, so they are not good predictors of conservation. These findings have both practical and theoretical implications.