DOI: 10.36347/sjahss.2017.v05i11.025

Pages: 1733-1737

Water is a transparent fluid which forms the major constituent of the fluids of living things. The global water crisis claims 3.4 million lives each year. When people gain access to clean water, jobs are created, sickness is prevented, childhood are restored, and communities are transformed. The study was conducted to assess the knowledge, attitude and practice of housewives regarding domestic waste water management in selected community areas, Kollam. The objectives of the study were to assess the level of knowledge of housewives regarding domestic waste water management, assess the attitude of housewives regarding domestic waste water management, assess the practice of housewives regarding domestic waste water management and to find out the association between knowledge scores of housewives and selected demographic variables. The researchers used descriptive research design. Convenient sampling method was adopted to select 60 housewives from two nagars of Pallithottam community area under Bishop Benziger community health centre as the samples. The results of the study showed that more than half of the samples (53.33%) possessed poor level of knowledge, 45% had average knowledge and 1.66% had good knowledge regarding waste water management, all the samples had favorable attitude towards waste water management, 36.6% of the samples had poor level of practice, 30% had average level of practice and 33.33% had good level of practice and the socio demographic variables like education and source of information had significant association with knowledge scores. The study concluded that more than half of the samples had good knowledge regarding waste water management, all the samples had favorable attitude towards waste water management and 36.6% of the samples had poor level of practice.