Illinois residents value strategies to improve water quality

    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Stein, Marianne (author)
    Format:
    Research summary
    Publication Date:
    2021-01
    URL:
    https://aces.illinois.edu/news/illinois-residents-value-strategies-improve-water-quality
    Published:
    USA: College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 202 Document Number: D12123
    Subject Term:
    attitudes, consumers, environment, environmental quality, farmer attitudes, fish, pollution, rural-urban differences, urban interests, water, water pollution, water quality, water management, willingness to pay, and water quality protection
    Notes:
    Via online research summary. 4 pages., Summary of a research project among rural and urban residents in the Upper Sangamon River Watershed in central Illinois to learn how much people care about local water quality, fish populations, and algae blooms, and how much they care about meeting Environmental Protection Agency targets which benefit the Gulf of Mexico. Responses indicated that rural and urban residents value efforts to reduce watershed pollution and are willing to pay for environmental improvements.

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