Aquam cum laude: Drinking Water Report Cards and Public Attitudes Toward Municipal Utilities

• In Event: In Tap Water We Trust: How Institutions and Public Policy Failures Shape Trust in Basic Services

Brief Overview

This study assigns academic-style report cards to drinking water systems, then uses an experiment to test the effects of those report cards on public attitudes about utilities, compared with federally mandated Consumer Confidence Reports.

Author

• Manny Teodoro, University of Wisconsin-Madison