Watershed Management for Potable Water Supply
Title | Watershed Management for Potable Water Supply PDF eBook |
Author | National Research Council |
Publisher | National Academies Press |
Pages | 569 |
Release | 2000-02-17 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 0309172683 |
In 1997, New York City adopted a mammoth watershed agreement to protect its drinking water and avoid filtration of its large upstate surface water supply. Shortly thereafter, the NRC began an analysis of the agreement's scientific validity. The resulting book finds New York City's watershed agreement to be a good template for proactive watershed management that, if properly implemented, will maintain high water quality. However, it cautions that the agreement is not a guarantee of permanent filtration avoidance because of changing regulations, uncertainties regarding pollution sources, advances in treatment technologies, and natural variations in watershed conditions. The book recommends that New York City place its highest priority on pathogenic microorganisms in the watershed and direct its resources toward improving methods for detecting pathogens, understanding pathogen transport and fate, and demonstrating that best management practices will remove pathogens. Other recommendations, which are broadly applicable to surface water supplies across the country, target buffer zones, stormwater management, water quality monitoring, and effluent trading.
Agricultural Nonpoint Source Pollution
Title | Agricultural Nonpoint Source Pollution PDF eBook |
Author | William F. Ritter |
Publisher | CRC Press |
Pages | 356 |
Release | 2000-12-15 |
Genre | Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | 9781420033083 |
If you work in the water quality management field, you know the challenges of monitoring and controlling pollutants in our water supply. The increasing problem of agricultural nonpoint source pollution requires complex solutions. Agricultural Nonpoint Source Pollution: Watershed Management and Hydrology covers the latest techniques and methods of managing large watershed areas, with an emphasis on controlling non-point source pollution, especially from agricultural run-off. Written by leading experts, the book includes topics such as: nitrate and phosphorus pollution, pesticide contamination, erosion and sedimentation, water-table management, and watershed management. The authors discuss the effects of agricultural run-off - one of the most intransigent problems now faced by environmental engineers and hydrologists. They explore each issue with an eye towards the integrated management of water quality and water resources over a defined area or region. This single-source reference gives you a complete understanding of the whats, whys, and hows of nonpoint source pollution - and more importantly of how to monitor and manage it. Agricultural Nonpoint Source Pollution: Watershed Management and Hydrology provides a broad but detailed overview that helps you to comprehend the intricacies of the problem and puts you on the path to finding the answers.
Nonpoint Source News-notes
Title | Nonpoint Source News-notes PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 538 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Nonpoint source pollution |
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National Water Quality Goals Cannot be Attained Without More Attention to Pollution from Diffused Or "nonpoint" Sources
Title | National Water Quality Goals Cannot be Attained Without More Attention to Pollution from Diffused Or "nonpoint" Sources PDF eBook |
Author | United States. General Accounting Office |
Publisher | |
Pages | 66 |
Release | 1977 |
Genre | Nonpoint source pollution |
ISBN |
"GAO reviewed overall efforts to controll nonpoint sources of pollution and concluded that progress has been minimal ... The Environmental Protection Agency should do more to plan solutions to nonpoint sources of water pollution ... The Agency agrees that a greater nonpoint source control effort at the Federal, State, and local level is needed. It believes, however, that the present program structure is the best possible, considering the various program constraints."--Page i-iii.
News-notes
Title | News-notes PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 554 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Nonpoint source pollution |
ISBN |
Theory, Modeling and Experience in the Management of Nonpoint-Source Pollution
Title | Theory, Modeling and Experience in the Management of Nonpoint-Source Pollution PDF eBook |
Author | Clifford S. Russell |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 358 |
Release | 2012-12-06 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 146153156X |
Nonpoint-source pollution (NPSP) poses a special challenge to society's ability to manage its collective environmental good - especially surface and groundwater quality. Since there is no `point', such as an outfall pipe, from which the pollution is being discharged and can be measured, pollution can reach the ambient environment without being monitored. Since management of air and water polution requires the definition and enforcement of limits on discharges or the imposition of fees on those discharges, inability to measure limits our ability to manage this environmental problem. This book presents a state-of-the-art review and discussion of economists' efforts to resolve this major problem and attempts to provide a way of working around it. The book sets forth the theoretical issues, modeling, and the actual programs set up to confront this issue.
Nonpoint Source Pollution, 1984-March 1987
Title | Nonpoint Source Pollution, 1984-March 1987 PDF eBook |
Author | Jayne T. MacLean |
Publisher | |
Pages | 28 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Water |
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