Two distinctly different pictures emerge in Utah over water supplies depending on where you live in the state, according to new research released Wednesday by the Utah Foundation.
Southern Utah residents are more likely to place greater importance on developing infrastructure than their northern Utah counterparts and also have greater concerns over water supply and water quality than more urbanized populations.
“Urban Utahns tend to be more in agreement with conservation practices rather than placing more emphasis on the need for infrastructure,” said Mallory Bateman, a research analyst with the foundation.
“That likely speaks to the quality of infrastructure that is already in place along the Wasatch Front and it being built out rather than a rural Utah, where there is a larger need to put in the infrastructure to get water to people,” she said.
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