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Water Quality and Agriculture: Meeting the Policy Challenge ISBN: 9789264168053 Improving water quality is consistently ranked as a top environmental concern in OECD public opinion surveys. The key challenge for policy makers in addressing water quality issues in agriculture is to reduce water pollution while encouraging higher water quality for recreational and other uses. This book examines linking policies, farm management and water quality. It looks at recent trends and prospects for water pollution from agriculture and the implications of climate change. It assesses the costs and ben...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Researchers analyzed eight years of data from 108 sites in the Chesapeake Bay Program's nontidal monitoring network, looking at daily-scale records of flow and corresponding loads of nitrogen, phosphorus and... view more  Credit: Heather Preisendanz research group/Penn State The vast majority of nutrients and sediment washed into streams flowing into the Chesapeake Bay are picked up by deluges from severe storms that occur on relatively few days of the year. That is the conclusion of a new study led by Penn State researchers, who say it offers clues for cleaning up th...