Information sources, learning opportunities, and priority water issues in the pacific Northwest

Extension programs should closely match citizen water resource priorities and be delivered in a format that the public will use. This article documents changes in public water resource priorities, preferred information sources, and learning opportunities between 2002 and 2007. Pacific Northwest citizens place a high priority on water resource issues and would prefer to learn about these issues via newspapers, television, and printed fact sheets. Since 2000, USDA-CSREES has placed an increased emphasis on regional rather than state-by-state water resources Extension programming. To encourage this regional programming, approximately $50,000,000 has been made available on a competitive basis (ARREA, 406 program) over the last 8 years. To accurately determine the effectiveness of regional programming, it is important both to establish base-line information about public perceptions and literacy, and then to measure change in public attitudes and actions Information Sources, Learning Opportunities, and Priority Water Issues in the Pacific Northwest 04/26/10 07:20:30