Clean Watersheds Needs Survey – 2004 Report to Congress &amp; 2008 Survey Advancements

Plastino, Michael; Zahreddine, Phil

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“…and have apparently resulted in decreases in TP concentration in the most developed areas. Likewise, the population served by advanced WWTPs, which can reduce TN loading to streams, has grown tremendously in the past decades and now surpasses 100 million . In contrast, major ion inputs have increased in human-dominated landscapes and resulted in noticeable increases in these solutes (Figure , Figure ).…”

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Landscape Drivers of Dynamic Change in Water Quality of U.S. Rivers

Stets

Sprague

Oelsner

et al. 2020

Environ. Sci. Technol.

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Water security is a top concern for social well-being, and dramatic changes in the availability of freshwater have occurred as a result of human uses and landscape management. Elevated nutrient loading and perturbations to major ion composition have resulted from human activities and have degraded freshwater resources. This study addresses the emerging nature of streamwater quality in the 21st century through analysis of concentrations and trends in a wide variety of constituents in streams and rivers of the U.S. Concentrations of 15 water quality constituents including nutrients, major ions, sediment, and specific conductance were analyzed over the period 1982−2012 and a targeted trend analysis was performed from 1992 to 2012. Although environmental policy is geared toward addressing the longstanding problem of nutrient overenrichment, these efforts have had uneven success, with decreasing nutrient concentrations at urbanized sites and little to no change at agricultural sites. Additionally, freshwaters are being salinized rapidly in all human-dominated land use types. While efforts to control nutrients are ongoing, rapid salinity increases are ushering in a new set of poorly defined issues. Increasing salinity negatively affects biodiversity, mobilizes sediment-bound contaminants, and increases lead contamination of drinking water, but its effects are not well integrated into current paradigms of water management.

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