The purpose of these two surveys is to understand public’s willing to support and to co-operate with Environment Protection Association’s (EPA’s) policy regarding to charge for preventing from water pollution. The results will be the references of EPA’s upcoming policies. The interviewees of these surveys should be heads of households, their spouses, or residents who are responsible for household expenditures. These surveys were carried out by phone interview within two time-periods, March 2005 and March 2006, and had valid samples 2,400, respectively, samples selected from Layered Random Method. Based on the statistic of 95% confidence level, the standard deviation is ±2%. The important findings from these studies are as below: Most people believe that the major polluting sources are industrial wastewater, wastewater discharged from households, and wastewater from stock raisers. Above 85% of interviewees agree that government should charge manufacturers for prevention of water pollution. 83% of interviewees agree that government should charge pig farmers for prevention of water pollution. As to the issue that government should first charge manufacturers and pig farmers for prevention of water pollution and then charge households, 46.7% of interviewees agree, while 51.9% of them disagree. As to the issue that government should, at the same time, charge manufacturers, pig farmers, as well as households for prevention of water pollution, 22.8% of interviewees agree, while 73.3% of them disagree. After knowing that wastewater discharged from households is the major polluting source (about 50% of total pollution measure), 49% of interviewees say that they will agree on the issue that households should be charged for prevention of water pollution, while 49% of interviewees still disagree. The main reason of disagreeing with this policy, charge for prevention of water pollution, is wastewater from households won’t pollute water. Second, their financial burden is too heavy to pay additional charge. People know that wastewater discharged from households is the major water-polluting source, agree that households should be charged. 72.1% of interviewees agree that it is acceptable to be charged NT$90 per month for prevention of water pollution, while 24.9% of them disagree. Above 90.0% of interviewees agree that the fee collected to treat water pollution could be gathered along with tap water bill. Overall, 87% of interviewees agree that water polluters should be charged for prevention of water pollution. Most interviewees suggest that fee collected from polluters should be used in improving drinking water quality.

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