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d
c
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Low WI Effort
Medium WI Effort
CAP LTER Boundary
High WI effort
City boundaries
Fig. 3.5 Illustrations of water information levels as constructed through participatory mapping
approaches. Each
panel
represents the map resulting from a unique combination of aggregation
technique (census tract, zip code, or distance buffer) and accounting method (count or economic
proxy). These are: (a) Census tract (count), (b) Census tract (economic proxy), (c) zip code (count)
(d) zip code (economic proxy), (e) distance buffer (count), and (f) distance buffer (economic proxy)
They also provided information through articles in local newspapers and broadcasts
over public access, canvassers out to talk about climate change, meetings about
riparian habitats, giveaways at football games, banners on main streets, and puppet
shows. Each of these programs represents an attempt by an organization to share
information and insight interest in local water supply andwater qualitywith the public.
Maps in Fig.
3.5
panels a-f indicate that cumulative effort of water information
providers to educate the public about water issues is not distributed evenly or
