EWSC Action Area Projects

Project 4: Community Perspectives & Engagement

The EWSC project is supported by a number of different research organisations, looking further into the community perspectives on, and engagement with, water reuse.

Project Description

This project will contain the following key steps

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Project Outputs

The Case For Water Smart Housing

Analysis by Public First that explores the impact of water scarcity on housing and economic growth, as well as public perspectives around water reuse.

Public First conducted an anonymous online survey of over 4,000 people across the UK to delve into attitudes towards water reuse, as well as water shortages more generally.

This included experiments to test how water reuse type, location, water use and treatment affect public attitudes, and to test what types of messaging around water reuse are most and least effective.

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