The water crisis is identified as the most serious global risk for the coming decade. Distilled water is one of the on-demand elements in academic laboratories; however, water scarcity may eventually affect the education sector, necessitating the implementation of new policies. Human behavior, awareness, knowledge, and opinion is having an impact on water management; accordingly, a questionnaire was purposely designed and validated to assess these variables in a Malaysian public university regarding the use of non-distilled water produced by the distillation process. An exploratory factor analysis yielded four factors: ?concept of green laboratory and water?, ?usage of non-distilled water?, ?knowledge about water distillation?, and ?behavior related to water conservation?. Using the Mann-Whitney U test to compare laboratory and non-laboratory users? responses, the variables ?Knowledge?, ?Behavior?, and ?Opinion? revealed statistically significant differences, with laboratory users scor.....

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