本文介绍了对科罗拉多州前沿地区三个中等规模社区600名居民用水者的随机抽样调查结果。该调查收集了公众对各种户外用水需求管理计划的接受程度信息。为参与者描述了13项节水政策，并记录了他们的回答。节水政策包括:教育政策；监管政策，如定量配给、时间限制、绿化和禁止浪费；固定价格、降价、提价等激励政策；财政激励；以及金融抑制因素。指出了公众对给定项目的接受程度与该项目在实现草坪灌溉节水方面的有效性之间的反比关系。 保护性定价仅为用户适度接受，最有可能改变习惯，并大幅节约草坪灌溉用水。这也是调查中假设项目中财务上最可行的。包括2个参考文献和表格。

This paper presents the results of a random sample survey of 600 residential water users who live in three medium-sized communities along the Front Range of Colorado. The survey gathered information on public acceptance of various outdoor water demand-management programs. Thirteen water conservation policies were described for participants and their responses recorded. The water conservation policies included: education policies; regulatory policies such as rationing, time of day restrictions, landscaping, and prohibition of waste; incentives policies such as constant price, decreasing price, and increasing price; financial incentives; and financial disincentives. An inverse relationship between public acceptance of a given program and the effectiveness of that program in achieving water savings for lawn irrigation was indicated. Conservation pricing, which is only moderately acceptable to users, would be most likely to change habits and to result in substantial conservation of water used for lawn irrigation. It would also be the most financially feasible of the hypothetical programs included in the survey. Includes 2 references, tables.