Hi Daphne,

Morgan and I spoke yesterday about mining data from the drinking water behavior survey that Meredith led. I started a list of question that I shared with Meredith, but she does not have time to take look into them. Morgan suggested you would be interested in working on this and could recruit Alec McKay to perform the analysis.

The survey and responses can be found here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSceArOvxVzrJDNEwuWICC8nY2sBsXaF1NgJp9ZXI9DJf1rAcQ/viewform?usp=sharing

My initial list of questions is below. There may be other items worth examining.

Let me know if you want to discuss further. I’ll reach out shortly about scheduling regular meetings.

Thanks,

Jen

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Hi Meredith,

I think it could be informative to analyze some of the responses to the survey. Specifically, it would be valuable to know if there is any consistency among respondents (in terms of gender identity and role on campus) to better target an information campaign. I made an initial list of questions and responses (below) that warrant a closer look (others could be added). Do you have an intern that could perform an analysis?

-         Agree or strongly agree to the statement: “Bottled water is my primary source of drinkable water.”

-         4 or 5 to the question: “To what degree do you prefer one type of water over another? Tap vs filtered” or “tap vs bottled” or “Filtered vs bottled”

-         4 or 5 to “Bottled water is safer to drink than tap water.”

-         4 or 5 to “Filtered tap water is safer to drink than tap water.“

-         4 or 5 to “One single-use bottle of water does not yield a significant environmental impact.“

Jennifer Fraterrigo (she/her)

iSEE Associate Director for Campus Sustainability and
Professor of Landscape and Ecosystem Ecology
Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences

University of Illinois

W-423 Turner Hall, 1102 S. Goodwin Ave.

Urbana, IL 61801