Water Consumption and I ts Reasons
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Table 10. Preference to type of beverages and its reasons continued
No. Drinking Habit Highland
Low land Total
Adults
1. Prefer to consume drinking water
70.7 50.0
59.8 2.
Prefer to consume others beverages 25.0
18.6 21.6
3. Reason to choose drinking water
a. Taste
9.2 7.8
8.6 b. Safety aspect
63.1 80.4
70.7 c.
Price 9.2
9.8 9.5
d. Easy to drink 13.8
2.0 8.6
e. Others
4.6 0.0
2.6 4.
Reason to choose others beverages a.
Taste 87.5
65.0 77.3
b. Safety aspect 8.3
15.0 11.4
c. Price
0.0 0.0
0.0 d. Easy to drink
0.0 10.0
4.5 e.
Others 4.2
10.0 6.8
5. Reason to choose bottle water
a. Taste
11.1 9.8
10.3 b. Safety aspect
55.6 58.8
57.7 c.
Price 0.0
0.0 0.0
d. Easy to drink 33.3
27.5 29.5
e. Others
0.0 3.9
0.0
The adult drinking habit is quite similar with those teenagers at both areas. In the highland area, 70.7 of the adults prefer unbottled water and 50 of adults in the
lowland prefer bottled water. It means that in the lowland, the adult’s preference is the same between the unbottled water and the ubottled water Table 10.
In the teenagers group, the reason for choosing unbottled drinking water is because of its safety, and it is explained by 80.3 and 81.0 in the highland and
lowland area respectively. The same reason for selecting the bottled drinking water is a safety, and it was mentioned by the 80.8 of teenagers in highland and 65.4 in
lowland. So the issues of safety drinking water are a concern for most teenagers who live in both ecological regions. The second priority of choosing water and other beverages
are practically used or easy to drink 11.5 in highland and 23.1 in lowland. In the adult group, the reason to choose unbottled drinking water is also because
of its safety which is 63.1 in the highland and 80.4 in the lowland. Moreover, in the highland and lowland, the reasons to drink bottled drinkingbeverages are because of its
safety 55.6 and 58.8 respectively and its practicality 33.3 and 27.5 respectively. It is conclude that consumers more consider in safety and practical issues
for choosing drinking water and other beverages.
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It is only 52.6 and 39.4 of teenagers in the highland and lowland prefers to consume other beverages instead of plain water. However, the hot temperature in North
Jakarta makes the most teenagers prefer to consume plain water compare to other beverages. The most reasons to consume other beverages are due to the taste 98.2 in
Lembang and 69.8 in North Jakarta. The main expectation of the teenagers to consume other beverages is to get a nice taste compare to other reasons. Meanwhile, the
second issue for choosing other beverages is a safety aspect, which is stated by 14.0 and 7.0 in highland and lowland area respectively.
The adult preferences are different compared to the teenagers group. The adults show that they are more preferred to consume the plain water rather than other
beverages. There are only 25.0 of adult in the highland and 18.6 in the lowland prefer to consume other beverages. Their reason for consuming the other beverages is
because of the taste which is stated by 87.5 in highland and 65.0 in lowland. Each of the subjects was asked to name three types of other beverages other than
plain water. There are 17 types of beverages named by the subject, and its distribution is almost similar between the two groups in two study locations. For teenagers in the
highland, they are prefer a bottled tea 26.8, home-prepare tea 23.7, fresh milk 17.5, powder drinking 14.4, electrolyte drink 14.4 and others. In the lowland,
the teenagers are more prefer to consume bottled tea 13.8, electrolyte drink 14.7, and home-prepare tea 12.8 then others. In both locations tea is favorite drink for the
most teenagers. Meanwhile, for the adult in the highland area, they prefer to drink tea 18.5 and coffee 14.1. At the other side, the adult in lowland, prefer home-prepare
tea 14.7.