5 - Public opinion - Manny Teodoro

Safe Drinking Water Act: The Next Fifty Years 💻

A new book aims to shape the national conversation Now available from Palgrave Macmillan In December 2024, the La Follette School at UW-Madison and the Water & Health Advisory Council gathered researchers, regulators, water sector executives, and community

Safe Drinking Water Act: The Next Fifty Years 📖

Palgrave Macmillan Manuel P. Teodoro, Editor In this open access book, contributors explore current challenges and opportunities to improve drinking water regulation, governance, management, environmental justice, and more. In 2024, the United States marked

Report Card Roundup 💻

Early dispatches from the revolution It’s been a little over two months since the Wisconsin Waterworks Excellence Project (WWEP) released the first public report cards for 572 Badger State water utilities. The WWEP publishes

Variable Flow Raises the Dead 💻

Sometimes there’s a little to say about a lot of things. Welcome back to Variable Flow. dis water haz teh icky plastiks Microplastics: bottle vs. tap In a stunning development, it turns out that water

Profits of Distrust at Seminary Co-op Bookstore 🎦

A conversation with Sabina Shaikh, University of Chicago The burgeoning bottled water industry presents a paradox: Why do people choose expensive, environmentally destructive bottled water, rather than cheaper, sustainable, and more rigorously regulated tap

The Profits of Distrust 📖

Citizen-Consumers, Drinking Water, and the Crisis of Confidence in American Government Cambridge University Press, 2022 The choices people make about drinking water reveal deeper lessons about trust in government and civic life. The burgeoning

Frame Game 2: Back to the Data 💻

Gendered and partisan responses to proposed rate increases [An absurdly busy couple of months has kept me away from the blogosphere—sorry. Will try to get back into a regular groove now] Winning public support

Issue framing and public willingness to pay water & sewer rate increases 🎓

AWWA Water Science, March 2022 This study uses an embedded survey experiment to evaluate the effects of issue framing on willingness to pay water and sewer rate increases. Government-owned utilities require public support for

The Frame Game 💻

The science of talking about water rate increases It’s not about the water tower—it’s about what’s inside Strictly from a value standpoint, it’s hard to imagine anything that provides more bang for the buck

Public water waste reporting 🎓

Contextual correlates and conservation outcomes Water Resources Research Y. Zhang, M.P. Teodoro & D. Switzer Key Points Participatory surveillance is a way for governments to increase water waste monitoring capacity and achieve conservation goals

Lone Star Blues 💻

When utility regulation fails, democracy fails when utilities fail, democracy fails The utility failures in the Lone Star State last week cascaded into a disaster when extreme weather hit an isolated electrical grid.* But

Confluence 💻

Confluence. [kän-flü-ən(t)s]. n. A coming or flowing together, meeting, or gathering at one point. Water is a big deal in Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania is a swing state. Am I being too subtle? More evidence that,

Art of the Possible 💻

Why water should be the Biden Administration’s top environmental priority Manny's electoral map The Biden administration’s environmental policy priorities are likely to be quite different from the Trump administration’s, and the impending change at

Race, Ethnicity, and Water Service Experiences 💻

Black, White, and Hispanic Americans experience water utility service differently What discontents lurk behind those enigmatic eyes? Over the past couple of years there’s been a growing recognition that drinking water policy is an

Income and Water Service Experiences 💻

Another way in which it’s tough to be poor Better with more money Drinking water utilities are great, but they aren’t perfect. Sometimes there are problems. Do those problems occur randomly? Or are there

Men, Women, and Water 💻

Gender predicts concern for water utility issues coliform contamination would make this way less romantic Do men and women think differently about their water utilities? In a recent post I wrote about some findings

Water Pros and Regular Joes 💻

How utility people—and everybody else—think about water issues Where's your head at? Each year the American Water Works Association (AWWA) conducts a survey of its members on the State of the Water Industry (SOTWI).

What’s up with the Blue Angels? 💻

One of my favorite things about growing up in Seattle was Seafair, an annual three-week festival, featuring hydroplane races, ethnic celebrations, beauty pageants, a Navy flotilla on Elliott Bay, and a wild nighttime torchlight

Roses by other names 💻

Ever notice that people hate government but love certain government agencies? A couple years ago I was shopping at Target and noticed racks full of NASA-branded merchandise for sale. The idea that bureaucraphobic Americans

Citizen-Based Brand Equity 🎓

A Model and Experimental Evaluation JPART: Journal of Public Administration and Theory Manuel P. Teodoro & Seung-Ho An Government agencies carry reputations in the public imagination. Agency names, images, and icons help form a