The prevalence of children being overweight and childhood obesity has increased in recent decades, positioning itself as a global public health problem. The investigation describes the structure of the water SR, which help to contextualize and explain the actions of schoolchildren and their parents regarding drinking water consumption. A practical dimension describes the features related to its consumption. In the parents’ SR, a functional dimension was also found another dimension was described regarding the integral well-being that drinking water provides. Three dimensions were described in the children’s SR: a functional dimension related to health and nutrition, a practical dimension that describes the instruments used for its consumption, and a theoretical dimension that specifies the characteristics of water and its relationship with nature.

Prototypical analysis was performed to explore the structure of the SR. A similarity analysis was performed using the co-occurrence index with this, a similarity graph was obtained. Schoolchildren aged 8 to 12 years ( n = 50) and parents ( n = 23) from two elementary schools were selected by a convenience sampling from April to June 2015. Associative free listing was used as an information gathering technique. The aim of our study was to describe the social representations (SR) of drinking water in school-children and parents of two schools in Zapopan, Mexico. In Mexico, drinking water consumption in children from 9 to 18 years only reaches 30% of total fluid consumption. Childhood obesity and children being overweight has increased recently although they are multi-causal problems, an unhealthy diet is a critical component.

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