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Science 21 July 1978:
Vol. 201. no. 4352, pp. 229 - 234
DOI: 10.1126/science.201.4352.229
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Water Resources and the Land-Water Interface

James R. Karr 1 and Isaac J. Schlosser 2

1 Associate professor in the Department of Ecology, Ethology, and Evolution at the University of Illinois at Urbana—Champaign, Urbana 61801
2 Doctoral candidate in the Department of Ecology, Ethology, and Evolution at the University of Illinois at Urbana—Champaign, Urbana 61801

Development and implementation of local and regional plans to control nonpoint sources of pollution from agricultural land are major mandates of section 208 of Public Law 92-500. Many planners tend to equate erosion control as measured by the universal soil loss equation with improvements in water quality. Others implement channel management practices which degrade rather than improve water quality and thereby decrease the effectiveness of other efforts to control nonpoint sources. Planners rarely recognize the importance of the land-water interface in regulating water quality in agricultural watersheds. More effective planning can result from the development of "best management systems" which incorporate theory from all relevant disciplines.


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