National Water Quality Goals Cannot be Attained Without More Attention to Pollution from Diffused Or "nonpoint" Sources

National Water Quality Goals Cannot be Attained Without More Attention to Pollution from Diffused Or
Author: United States. General Accounting Office
Publisher:
Total Pages: 70
Release: 1977
Genre: Nonpoint source pollution
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"GAO reviewed overall efforts to controll nonpoint sources of pollution and concluded that progress has been minimal ... The Environmental Protection Agency should do more to plan solutions to nonpoint sources of water pollution ... The Agency agrees that a greater nonpoint source control effort at the Federal, State, and local level is needed. It believes, however, that the present program structure is the best possible, considering the various program constraints."--Page i-iii.

State and Federal Approach to Control of Nonpoint Sources of Pollution

State and Federal Approach to Control of Nonpoint Sources of Pollution
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Publisher: UCANR Publications
Total Pages: 7
Release: 2006
Genre:
ISBN: 1601073941

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Nonpoint source (NPS), common in agriculture, reaches the environment as runoff from a field, not output from a waste pipe. Its control and regulation are also different from other types of pollution that may seem more familiar.