Survey Results!

SURVEY RESULTS 3.13.13

What do we need to get across in exhibit? Choose one to focus on. Post your choice in the comments.

1.     Learn where water comes from and goes

2.     Kinds of life in water

3.     Tap vs. bottled water – many people only drink bottled. What are the differences?

a.     Taste tests?

4.     Drought and Intrastate water use

a.     Who, what, where, when, why, how? Place specific

b.     Movement of water from agriculture to cities

c.     What does drought mean to your community (get feedback)

5.     Other most common issues:  beetles and wildfire  (also most in the news)

SOREN AND DUSTIN FT. COLLINS

60% college peers in Old Town, high school, adults

Question 11 on fairs/festivals difficult – few answers. Food primary answer

A lot of displays are boring, unmemorable – how do we make ours something to remember?

People want to see biology, agriculture

#1 environmental issue all over the board – wildfire and drought (perhaps from last year’s experience)

RICK AND CHARLES DENVER

Families approached but adults only filled out, college grads

5 kinds of life in water – no

#3: #1 issue – wildfire and drought

where water goes – sewers and ocean (not to a treatment plant)

where water comes from - did not know

#12 – rivers, conservation

MALLORIE, MELISSA, SPENCER At Sprouts in LONGMONT

Older adults, over 40

#3: #1 issue – mountain pine beetle, drought

#12 – agri, fracturing, conservation, biology

bottled vs. tap – some preferred tap

river and water use, conservation efforts

use? 63% said 100 gal.

come from / go? Don’t know, doesn’t matter

MONIKA AND GRAYSON GOLDEN downtown

Mostly college grads

#10 types of life - 4-5 on most surveys

#3: #1 issue - drought, wildlife

similar trends as others

#12 – conservation, fracturing, agri

ELLEN AND KIRK ELDORA lodge

Very proud of Nederland water – first use

5 people up there had no running water!

#3: #1 issue wildfire and drought

#12: hydraulic fracturing and biology, conservation

people did not see water as a scarce resource

KEEGAN AND READE BOULDER

College age and young adult

#3: #1 issue – beetle, drought

#12 – conservation and biology, rivers

#12 anywrite-ins? Water pathogens, art, water withdrawls, ski resort water usage

Conversations? Interesting that this kind of exhibit would be in a farmer’s market

How did you introduce it? Portable exhibit travelling around Colorado

High response on #3 as beetles and drought are victim positions: conservation more participatory