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Agriculture and the Environment: Information on and Characteristics of Selected Watershed Projects

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date June 30, 1995
Report No. RCED-95-218
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Summary:

Recent federal, state, and local studies on water quality have cited agriculture as the nation's greatest source of nonpoint pollution--that is, pollution that cannot be traced to a specific point of origin. Agriculture contributes more than half the pollutants entering the nation's rivers and lakes. The threat to water quality posed by nonpoint sources of pollution has renewed interest in watershed-based approaches to reducing such pollution. This report (1) determines the number, the purposes, the locations, and the funding of federal watershed projects that address pollution caused by agricultural production and (2) provides information on the lessons learned from innovative or successful watershed projects.

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