Over half of Pakistanis (52%) use refrigerators to keep the water cool during summers, recent Gilani poll conducted by Gallup Pakistan revealed. Some other methods, which the respondents have claimed to use are, water coolers 28 percent, mud utensils 11 percent and electric coolers 4 percent.
Remaining respondents 'use some other means of cooling water (3%) or do not drink cold water (1%). A nationally representative sample of men and women from across the country were asked 'Where you usually put your drinking water to cool it in the summers?'
52perrcent of the questioned people claimed to use refrigerators and 28percent use water coolers to cool their drinking water in the summers. 11percent of the respondents said they pour drinking water in a Mud-Utensil, 4percent use electric coolers, while the remaining 4percent said they either use some other method or do not drink cool water.
The data reveals that a proportionately higher percentage of urbanites (63%) than ruralites (47%) put their drinking water in refrigerators, where as more ruralites as compared to their urban counterparts use water coolers or mud utensils to chill drinking water.
The study was released by Gilani foundation and carried out by Gallup Pakistan, the Pakistani affiliate of Gallup International. The latest survey was carried out among a sample of 2,721 men and women in rural and urban areas of all four provinces of the country, during May-June 2009.