These are among the conclusions of an independent survey released at Water Quality Association Aquatech USA convention. The random sample survey, conducted by Applied Research-West, offers a look into Americans’ evolving attitude about their water.
Among the major findings:
The findings also reveal that boil water alerts tend to trigger purchase of water filtration systems. In fact, boil water alerts have been growing slightly in number over each survey period.
There was an increase from a 2011 survey of people that would be willing to pay more on their water bill for removal of MTBEs or pharmaceuticals found in their tap water. In addition, they would be willing to pay more for home water treatment systems to remove biological waste, arsenic, lead, and other contaminants.
There have been significant increases in the use of bottled water and those that have water filtration systems installed in their homes.
Source: Water Quality Association
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