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Public Attitudes Toward Water Conservation
Consumer attitudes toward water conservation were surveyed in seven northeastern Colorado communities to determine whether relationships exist between (1) attitudes and type of community or (2) attitudes and socioeconomic variables. The water conservation alternatives presented to these users included metering, price increases, restrictions on water use, restrictions on lawn size, controls on population growth, and reuse of treated wastewater for cotable purposes. Preferences for development of additional water supplies were also included in the survey. All but one of the conservation alternatives, reuse for drinking purposes, were favored by more than half of the respondents. Consumers in communities with lawn watering restrictions were more willing to install water‐saving devices or to change landscaping than were consumers in unrestricted communities. Respondents who were metered strongly favored meters, and, to a lesser degree, flat‐rate customers preferred the flat rate. Metered users also favored price increases, whereas flat‐rate users did not. Restrictions on population growth were preferred more strongly by rural and flat‐rate consumers than urban and metered consumers. Respondents with less than a high school education or earning incomes of less than $15 000 per year more often opposed the various water conservation alternatives. In addition, retired or disabled persons did not approve of such alternatives as price increases or installation of water‐saving devices.
Public Attitudes Toward Water Conservation
Consumer attitudes toward water conservation were surveyed in seven northeastern Colorado communities to determine whether relationships exist between (1) attitudes and type of community or (2) attitudes and socioeconomic variables. The water conservation alternatives presented to these users included metering, price increases, restrictions on water use, restrictions on lawn size, controls on population growth, and reuse of treated wastewater for cotable purposes. Preferences for development of additional water supplies were also included in the survey. All but one of the conservation alternatives, reuse for drinking purposes, were favored by more than half of the respondents. Consumers in communities with lawn watering restrictions were more willing to install water‐saving devices or to change landscaping than were consumers in unrestricted communities. Respondents who were metered strongly favored meters, and, to a lesser degree, flat‐rate customers preferred the flat rate. Metered users also favored price increases, whereas flat‐rate users did not. Restrictions on population growth were preferred more strongly by rural and flat‐rate consumers than urban and metered consumers. Respondents with less than a high school education or earning incomes of less than $15 000 per year more often opposed the various water conservation alternatives. In addition, retired or disabled persons did not approve of such alternatives as price increases or installation of water‐saving devices.
Public Attitudes Toward Water Conservation
Flack, J. Ernest (author) / Greenberg, Joanne (author)
Journal ‐ American Water Works Association ; 79 ; 46-51
1987-03-01
6 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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