Abstract
This research is aimed at investigating the relationship be tween inhabitants movement to improve water intimacy and their image for river environment through the questionnaires. The river runs through the urban area in Iwaki City, Fukushima Prefecture, and its basin does not have adequate sewage system. That causes the deterioration of the river environment. The inhabitants movement of that area contributes to the improvement of water quality and water intimacy and leads the local government to excute the enterprise of river improvement.
The questiormaires were conducted twice, one was shortly before the movement and the other five years later of it, to analyze how the inhabitants' interests have changed and what they hope on river improvement.
