Two-thirds of the population doesn’t drink water straight from the tap, according to a public opinion survey from late May.Thirty-five percent don’t drink tap water at all, while another 32% either filter or treat it before drinking, according to a Smith Consulting poll for Ronen Tzur Tikshoret.RELATED:
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Poorer people (41%), religious and haredi people (64%) and Arabs (53%) were more likely to drink tap water. Just 18% of secular and just 10% of olim from the former Soviet Union (FSU) said they drank tap water.Tap-water drinkers were also much more common in the Jerusalem area (55%) than in the center (19%).Of those who didn’t drink water straight from the tap, 31% explained why they didn’t by saying “it didn’t taste good,” 32% said there were harmful things in the water and 14% said they had been convinced it was bad for you.Instead of tap water, 35% picked up bottles of water from the supermarket, 31% had a treatment system of some kind installed at home (like Tami4) and 30% used a filter (like Brita).Just 4% said they had containers of mineral water delivered to their homes.if(window.location.pathname.indexOf("656089") != -1){console.log("hedva connatix");document.getElementsByClassName("divConnatix")[0].style.display ="none";}Sixty percent of olim from the FSU were likely to pick up bottles from the store, the survey found, as opposed to the general average of 35%.The majority of people surveyed eschewed a scientific method for determining tap water quality – 56% based their decision on their personal experience. Fourteen percent relied on media reports of water quality.And yet, 57% of those polled were convinced the quality of Israel’s tap water was on par with Europe or the US, rather than the Third World.Sixty-four percent, nevertheless, thought that mineral water was of higher quality than tap water. Young people up to age 29 were most skeptical of tap water versus mineral water – 87% thought mineral water was of higher quality. Among those over 50, 42% thought so.The telephone survey was carried out May 27-28 among a representative sample of 500 adults, both Jewish and Arab, aged 18 and older. The margin of error was 4.5%.
Ministers urged to give up bottled water
Poorer people (41%), religious and haredi people (64%) and Arabs (53%) were more likely to drink tap water. Just 18% of secular and just 10% of olim from the former Soviet Union (FSU) said they drank tap water.Tap-water drinkers were also much more common in the Jerusalem area (55%) than in the center (19%).Of those who didn’t drink water straight from the tap, 31% explained why they didn’t by saying “it didn’t taste good,” 32% said there were harmful things in the water and 14% said they had been convinced it was bad for you.Instead of tap water, 35% picked up bottles of water from the supermarket, 31% had a treatment system of some kind installed at home (like Tami4) and 30% used a filter (like Brita).Just 4% said they had containers of mineral water delivered to their homes.if(window.location.pathname.indexOf("656089") != -1){console.log("hedva connatix");document.getElementsByClassName("divConnatix")[0].style.display ="none";}Sixty percent of olim from the FSU were likely to pick up bottles from the store, the survey found, as opposed to the general average of 35%.The majority of people surveyed eschewed a scientific method for determining tap water quality – 56% based their decision on their personal experience. Fourteen percent relied on media reports of water quality.And yet, 57% of those polled were convinced the quality of Israel’s tap water was on par with Europe or the US, rather than the Third World.Sixty-four percent, nevertheless, thought that mineral water was of higher quality than tap water. Young people up to age 29 were most skeptical of tap water versus mineral water – 87% thought mineral water was of higher quality. Among those over 50, 42% thought so.The telephone survey was carried out May 27-28 among a representative sample of 500 adults, both Jewish and Arab, aged 18 and older. The margin of error was 4.5%.
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