Check-if-apply approach for consumers and utilities to communicate about drinking water aesthetics quality
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| 作者 | Carneiro, Renata C., V; Wang, Chunmiao; Yu, Jiawei; O'Keefe, Sean F.; Duncan, Susan E.; Gallagher, Conor D.; Burlingame, Gary A.; Dietrich, Andrea M. |
| 刊名 | SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
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| 出版日期 | 2021-01-20 |
| 卷号 | 753页码:- |
| 关键词 | Consumers Drinking water Taste Odor Aesthetics Communication |
| ISSN号 | 0048-9697 |
| 英文摘要 | Globally, consumers judge their drinking water through its aesthetic qualities because tastes, odors, and appearances are readily detectable by untrained consumers. Consumer feedback is critical to the water industry for efficient resolution of aesthetic water quality issues, although consumer descriptions of taste and odor issues can sometimes be unfocused or confusing. A user-friendly approach can facilitate consumer communications to utilities in the challenging task of describing drinking water taste and odor issues. The purpose of this study was to develop a list of taste and odor descriptors and test a novel check-if-apply approach to describe drinking water quality. The final list contained 28 individual and/or groups of descriptors. 75 participants tested water samples impacted by various tastants or odorants: duplicate samples of chloraminated tap water, tap water with heptanal, tapwater with 2-methylisoborneol (MIB), tapwaterwith NaCl, bottledwater, and bottledwaterwith CuSO4. Participants used a 9-point hedonic scale (1 = 'dislike extremely'; 9 = 'like extremely') to rate overall liking of each sample, and they used the check-if-apply list to describe the taste or odor. Participants also answered a brief questionnaire and used a 5-point scale (1 = 'very difficult'; 5='very easy') to evaluate their experience using the check-if-apply list. Significant differenceswere observed in acceptability and sensory profile of samples (p-value <0.05). Tap water with MIB had the lowest acceptability mean score (3.43 +/- 1.74), while flavorless bottled water had the highest acceptability mean score (6.23 +/- 1.47). 'Salty', 'metallic', 'chemical' and 'musty/earthy' were the dominant descriptors for NaCl, CuSO4, heptanal, and MIB, respectively. Most participants (81%) found the check-if-apply list as 'somewhat easy' to 'very easy' to use (mean= 3.44 +/- 1.07) and suggested it as a user-friendly lexicon for consumers and utilities to communicate about water quality. (C) 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. |
| WOS研究方向 | Environmental Sciences |
| 源URL | [http://ir.rcees.ac.cn/handle/311016/46180]  |
| 专题 | 生态环境研究中心_中国科学院饮用水科学与技术重点实验室 |
| 作者单位 | 1.Virginia Tech, Food Sci & Technol, 1230 Washington St SW,402 HABB1, Blacksburg, VA 24061 USA 2.Virginia Tech, Civil & Environm Engn, 418 Durham Hall,1145 Perry St,MC 0246, Blacksburg, VA 24061 USA 3.Bur Lab Serv, Philadelphia Water Dept, 1500 E Hunting Pk Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19124 USA 4.Virginia Tech, Comp Sci, 220 Hancock Hall,490 Old Turner St, Blacksburg, VA 24061 USA 5.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Res Ctr Ecoenvironm Sci, Key Lab Drinking Water Sci & Technol, 18 Shuangqing Rd, Beijing 100085, Peoples R China |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Carneiro, Renata C., V,Wang, Chunmiao,Yu, Jiawei,et al. Check-if-apply approach for consumers and utilities to communicate about drinking water aesthetics quality[J]. SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT,2021,753:-. |
| APA | Carneiro, Renata C., V.,Wang, Chunmiao.,Yu, Jiawei.,O'Keefe, Sean F..,Duncan, Susan E..,...&Dietrich, Andrea M..(2021).Check-if-apply approach for consumers and utilities to communicate about drinking water aesthetics quality.SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT,753,-. |
| MLA | Carneiro, Renata C., V,et al."Check-if-apply approach for consumers and utilities to communicate about drinking water aesthetics quality".SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 753(2021):-. |
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