3.2. Perception of water quality and effect of regulation removal
Based on the five likert point scale, 63% of the respondents per-ceive the water quality in the water bodies closest to their farms asbeing above average, whereas a smaller percentage (3%) perceivethe quality to be low (Table 3). Farmers’ perceptions regarding thenegative impact that removal of existing regulations would haveon water quality vary greatly. However, most of the farmers (over50%) perceive the effect to be low or moderate in all the six sce-narios (Table 4). Approximately 20% of the respondents report anexpected high negative effect on water quality if regulations oncover crops and winter crops are removed.