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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Water quality policy"”.
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Three essays on water quality policy and valuation
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-12-04 without embargo terms
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Three essays on water quality policy and conservation practice evaluation
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-02-04 without embargo terms
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Selection of Pathogen Surrogates and Fresh Produce Safety: Implications for Public Health and Irrigation Water Quality Policy
… lettuce plant contamination by spray irrigation water, and evaluate a common industry quality control (QC) E.coli strain (ATCC 25922). Selections of E.coli surrogates were made utilizing biofilm and leaf attachment data from lab scale assays. Five surrogates were found to be similar in biofilm …
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Evaluation of the Development and Effectiveness of Copper Total Maximum Daily Loads (Tmdls) to Achieve Marine Water Quality Criteria
… concentrations of certain chemicals in surface water are known to be toxic to aquatic organisms (e.g., barnacles, algae, and fish). For a number of these chemicals (e.g., tributyltin [TBT], copper) federal and state water quality standards exist to protect aquatic organisms. As a means to comply …
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Costs of Meeting Water Quality Goals under Climate Change in Urbanizing Watersheds: The Case of Difficult Run, Virginia
… source contributor of nutrient loadings into watersheds. Interannual surges of nutrient loadings into local water systems are more damaging than mean interannual nutrient loadings. Virginia has outlined the need to reduce urban nutrient loadings. Mean interannual nutrient loadings and …
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Response of farmers' decisions and stream water quality to price incentives for nitrogen reduction, carbon abatement, and miscanthus cultivation: predictions based on agent-based modeling coupled with water quality modeling
… the effects in turn of these decisions on water quality, namely stream nitrate load. Given that agriculture is the single largest source of nitrogen in surface waters and is a major contributor to hypoxia in coastal ecosystems and eutrophication in streams and lakes, this study is motivated …
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Estimating demand for environmental goods and services, now and later
… In chapter 4, I examine preferences for surface water quality and quantify some overlooked benefits of nutrient reductions in the Mississippi River Basin. Improvements in local surface water quality in the Mississippi River Basin (MRB) can contribute to the regional environmental goals of …
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EVALUATING ‘SOFT PATH’ APPROACHES IN CHINA’S WATER MANAGEMENT: THE CASE OF THE DONGJIANG RIVER BASIN
Water resources are essential for human life and development. River basins provide an essential basis for quantifying and managing water resources, but other spatial units for human organisation rarely map helpfully onto river basins. As water resources are utilised, conflicts can emerge between …