...Laura J. Bender; Christian F. Lenhart Phosphorus is a growing water quality concern in agricultural landscapes. Sources of agricultural phosphorus include synthetic fertilizers and manure application that support crop growth. These sources lead to excess phosphorus in adjacent waterways causing...

... insecurity continues to impact their lives many years after state authorities declared the water crisis to be over. This study adds to a growing literature that highlights how the “adequateness” of water quality is not a stable or self-evident condition for there are different frameworks for water...

... that contributed to the proliferation of large, industrialized hog farms in North Carolina and how these same factors impact the development and implementation of solutions to mitigate environmental risk. © 2021 by The Regents of the University of California 2021 CAFO swine water quality environmental...

...Nell Green Nylen Water scarcity commonly motivates managed aquifer recharge projects, but other factors can motivate recharge efforts, including in relatively water-rich areas. Surface water quality regulation has been a major driving force behind a large-scale recharge project in development...

.... The Natural Resources Conservation Service designed and constructed a stormwater sediment erosion control basin system to reduce site gully erosion and improve surface water quality in situ and downstream. Basin water quality was tested biweekly for parameters associated with HABs including temperature...

... water quality. When contamination incidents occur, government agencies and non-profit organizations respond in various ways, including environmental remediation. These efforts can be successful in restoring water quality and improving biodiversity. But, what happens when clean-up efforts are able...

...-arid, faces a large projected water shortfall, and is a major fossil fuel and agricultural producer. The rapid uptake of high-volume hydraulic fracturing (HVHF) combined with horizontal drilling in populated areas poses ongoing risks to regional water quality. Through this case study, fracking...

...Chloe Wardropper; Sean Gillon; Adena Rissman This case examines the risks and opportunities for stakeholders involved in an experimental water quality management program in Wisconsin, USA. This program pays for pounds of pollution reduced through soil conservation practices on farm fields and other...

...), https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hydraulic_Fracturing-Related_Activities.jpg. geology hydrology public policy radionuclides water quality Pennsylvania Marcellus Shale Region natural gas fracking Advanced techniques in hydraulic fracturing (fracking) have brought rapid...

... with a requirement for local government to institute enforceable water quality and quantity limits on all freshwater bodies. The blueprint for these national freshwater policy reforms comes from its South Island region of Canterbury. Canterbury's regional council has adopted a catchment load approach whereby...

...: to improve water quality and establish a good water status across EU Member States by 2015 or 2027. The innovative WFD governance architecture has led to an institutionalization of hydrological scales, and promoted participation across scales and decision-making levels [ 13 ]. However, the European...

...Jeffrey W. Hanlon In 1997, New York City and a group of smaller municipalities in the Catskills region of New York came to agree upon a novel and complex means of protecting water quality in the City's upstate reservoirs. The Memorandum of Agreement they authored tied previously uncooperating...

...Richard Byrne Water is generally plentiful in the United Kingdom; however, there is an emerging water quality issue driven by agricultural intensification. Poor land management over generations has contributed to the degradation of upland peat deposits leading to discolouration of potable water...

...Ramiro Berardo; Francesca Formica; Jeffrey Reutter; Ajay Singh One of the focal events motivating the passage of the Clean Water Act in 1972 was the decline of water quality in Lake Erie, which was originally linked to insufficient treatment of wastewater in some of the biggest adjacent urban...