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  • 2 - Living Water

  • Margaret Cook, University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Lionel Frost, Monash University, Victoria, Andrea Gaynor, University of Western Australia, Perth, Jenny Gregory, University of Western Australia, Perth, Ruth A. Morgan, Australian National University, Canberra, Martin Shanahan, University of South Australia, Peter Spearritt, University of Queensland
  • Book:
    Cities in a Sunburnt Country
    Published online:
    19 May 2022
    Print publication:
    19 May 2022, pp 27-45

  • Summary

    The diverse water systems and ecologies of the places that would become Australia’s capital cities sustained Aboriginal peoples for thousands of years because of two key factors: Aboriginal knowledge of water and associated wetland and riparian ecologies, and respect for life-sustaining water as a central tenet of Aboriginal cultures. For millennia, and often enduring in the wake of the violent rupture of colonisation, Aboriginal peoples understood the affordances and risks of different forms of water and preserved these understandings in robust oral traditions. This enabled them to follow seasonal abundances of water and avoid its seasonal hazards. For all Australian Indigenous cultures, water is a storied medium that connects the past and present in the ‘long now’: a living and lively substance that sustains their Country.

  • Assessing the relationship between water and nutrition knowledge and beverage consumption habits in children

  • Bridget R Irwin, Mark R Speechley, Jason A Gilliland
  • Journal:
    Public Health Nutrition / Volume 22 / Issue 16 / November 2019
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    14 May 2019, pp. 3035-3048
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  • Objective:

    To examine the relationship between knowledge and beverage consumption habits among children.

    Design:

    Cross-sectional analysis. Linear regression was used to identify sociodemographic, dietary and behavioural determinants of beverage consumption and knowledge, and to describe the relationships between children’s knowledge and water and sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) consumption.

    Settings:

    Seventeen elementary schools in London, Ontario, Canada.

    Participants:

    A total of 1049 children aged 8–14 years.

    Results:

    Knowledge scores were low overall. Children with higher knowledge scores consumed significantly fewer SSB (β = −0·33; 95 % CI −0·49, −0·18; P < 0·0001) and significantly more water (β = 0·34; 95 % CI 0·16, 0·52; P = 0·0002). More frequent refillable water bottle use, lower junk food consumption, lower fruit and vegetable consumption, female sex, higher parental education, two-parent households and not participating in a milk programme were associated with a higher water consumption. Male sex, higher junk food consumption, single-parent households, lower parental education, participating in a milk programme, less frequent refillable water bottle use and permission to leave school grounds at lunchtime were associated with a higher SSB consumption. Water was the most frequently consumed beverage; however, 79 % of respondents reported consuming an SSB at least once daily and 50 % reported consuming an SSB three or more times daily.

    Conclusions:

    Elementary-school children have relatively low nutrition and water knowledge and consume high proportions of SSB. Higher knowledge is associated with increased water consumption and reduced SSB consumption. Interventions to increase knowledge may be effective at improving children’s beverage consumption habits.