Control of Water Pollution from Agriculture


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Agricultural operations can contribute to water quality deterioration through the release of several materials into water: sediments, pesticides, animal manures, fertilizers and other sources of inorganic and organic matter. This ''guidelines'' document on control and management of agricultural water pollution has the objectives of delineating the nature and consequences of agricultural impacts on water quality, and of providing a framework for practical measures to be undertaken by relevant professionals and decision-makers to control water pollution.






















Control of Water Pollution from Cropland, Vol. 1


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Excerpt from Control of Water Pollution From Cropland, Vol. 1: A Manual for Guideline Development In today's agriculture, the use of chemicals is clearly necessary to maintain high yields and high quality of our agricultural products and to provide economic benefits to the farmer and the consumer. In today's concern for clean water, there are demands for preventing pollutants from entering ground and surface waters. Consequently, agricultural practices are being examined as to their contribution to water pollution. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.