States get tough with nonpoint pollution
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More states in the U.S. are starting to use enforceable controls on farm, forest and urban area runoffs in an effort to keep water clean. Laws have been in effect for many years but only recently are they being coordinated to reach significant reductions in pollution.
Publication Name: Environmental Science & Technology
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0013-936X
Year: 2000
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Advisory panel completes work on TMDL watershed guidelines
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An advisory committee recommended the revival of a 26-year-old Clean Water Act amendment, the total maximum daily load (TMDL) program, which was intended for the protection of US watersheds. The recommendations are the results of a two-year endeavor by a federal advisory committee that was created to assist in the implementation and enforcement of the TMDL program. The advisory panel was composed of representatives from environmental groups, government and business. A latest report from the National Wildlife Federation revealed that 70% of the territories and states did not utilize TMDLs to protect their watersheds.
Publication Name: Environmental Science & Technology
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0013-936X
Year: 1998
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DNA fingerprinting holds promise for idetifying nonpoint sources of pollution
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Virginia scientists bared their plan in September 1998, to use DNA fingerprinting in cleaning up 14 polluted sections of streams within their borders. The plan, which effectively put Virginia among a group of US states that are using the technology to trace down sources of bacterial water pollution, will utilize DNA fingerprinting to match the genetic characteristics of bacteria in water, to bacteria in animals such as chickens and cows. Fecal bacteria accounts for the deterioration of 50% of US streams, according to Don Waye, senior water resources planner for the Northern Virginia Planning District Commission.
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Virginia scientists plan to use DNA fingerprinting in cleaning up 14 polluted sections of streams within the state
Publication Name: Environmental Science & Technology
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0013-936X
Year: 1998
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