Spatial Variation of the Cleaner Water Tanks and the Impact of Demographics Characteristics on it, Amman City, Geographical Study
Hussein Mansour and Omar Aldayafleh, Department of Geography, Yarmouk University, Irbid, Jordan.
Abstract
This study aimed to identify the spatial variation of the cleaner household water tanks in the city of Amman, and the impact of social and economic characteristics of the population of the cleanliness of the home where the water tank. The study used a statistical approach and analytical approach through a questionnaire composed of nine variables were distributed to 573 head of household. Has been the analysis of spatial data needed by using geographic information systems, also used Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) as Chi Square, Spearman Correlation coefficient. Study reached a number of conclusions, including: that there is a Spatial variation in cleaner water tanks home between neighborhoods area, as there is awareness among cleaning their domestic water tanks,, also showed a relationship between the variables of the study: age, educational level, income and number of family members and housing type and age of housing with repeated cleaning the water tank at home, and there is A statistically significant correlation between the two variables of income and age of housing with repeat the clean domestic water tank using Spearman. In light of these findings the study recommended the need to raise the level of awareness of the population to higher levels, and increased control of water filtration plants in the revival of the study area.