Clean Water Act Research and Monitoring
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Subcommittee on Environment
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Published: 1991
Total Pages: 342
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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Subcommittee on Environment
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Published: 1991
Total Pages: 342
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Subcommittee on Technology, Environment, and Aviation
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Published: 1994
Total Pages: 184
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2004-10-14
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 030916589X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn order to confront the increasingly severe water problems faced by all parts of the country, the United States needs to make a new commitment to research on water resources. A new mechanism is needed to coordinate water research currently fragmented among nearly 20 federal agencies. Given the competition for water among farmers, communities, aquatic ecosystems and other users-as well as emerging challenges such as climate change and the threat of waterborne diseases-Confronting the Nation's Water Problems concludes that an additional $70 million in federal funding should go annually to water research. Funding should go specifically to the areas of water demand and use, water supply augmentation, and other institutional research topics. The book notes that overall federal funding for water research has been stagnant in real terms for the past 30 years and that the portion dedicated to research on water use and social science topics has declined considerably.
Author: Tamim M. Younos
Publisher: Water Resources Publication
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9781887201339
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book provides an overview of the 21st century water monitoring technologies and their potential for water quality-protection. This book is best suitable as a reference for water monitoring agencies and graduate studies in water monitoring research.
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2008-02-08
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 0309177812
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Mississippi River is, in many ways, the nation's best known and most important river system. Mississippi River water quality is of paramount importance for sustaining the many uses of the river including drinking water, recreational and commercial activities, and support for the river's ecosystems and the environmental goods and services they provide. The Clean Water Act, passed by Congress in 1972, is the cornerstone of surface water quality protection in the United States, employing regulatory and nonregulatory measures designed to reduce direct pollutant discharges into waterways. The Clean Water Act has reduced much pollution in the Mississippi River from "point sources" such as industries and water treatment plants, but problems stemming from urban runoff, agriculture, and other "non-point sources" have proven more difficult to address. This book concludes that too little coordination among the 10 states along the river has left the Mississippi River an "orphan" from a water quality monitoring and assessment perspective. Stronger leadership from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is needed to address these problems. Specifically, the EPA should establish a water quality data-sharing system for the length of the river, and work with the states to establish and achieve water quality standards. The Mississippi River corridor states also should be more proactive and cooperative in their water quality programs. For this effort, the EPA and the Mississippi River states should draw upon the lengthy experience of federal-interstate cooperation in managing water quality in the Chesapeake Bay.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on Natural Resources, Agriculture Research, and Environment
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Published: 1983
Total Pages: 676
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Publisher: Nova Biomedical Books
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 176
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Clean Water Act (CWA) requires states to identify waters that are impaired by pollution, even after application of pollution controls. For these waters, states must establish a total maximum daily load (TMDL) of pollutants to ensure that water quality standards can be attained. Implementation was dormant until states and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) were prodded by numerous lawsuits. The TMDL program has become controversial, in part because of requirements and costs now facing states to implement this 30-year old provision of the law. In 1999, EPA proposed regulatory changes to strengthen the TMDL program. Industries, cities farmers and others may be required to use new pollution controls to meet TMDL requirements. EPA's proposal was widely criticised and congressional interest has been high. This book explores the lingering dispute between states and industry groups, beginning from the Clinton administration and stretching all the way to the present. However, Congress recognised in the Act that, in many cases, pollution controls implemented by industry and cities would be insufficient, due to pollutant contributions from other unregulated sources.
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Publisher: DIANE Publishing
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Total Pages: 77
ISBN-13: 142894737X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Subcommittee on Environment
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Published: 1991
Total Pages: 328
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