Punishable water pollution: act or consequence?

Non-Point Source Pollution and the Clean Water Act: Policy Problem and Professional Prospects

Successful implementation of water-quality management requires accurate scientific knowledge of water systems and sound judgment about environmental policy. This dual requirement calls for interactions between water scientists, managers, and policy experts who can jointly interpret and synthesize the data necessary for decision-making. With regard to non-point source (NPS) pollution in the Unit...

Clean Water Act

Definition The US Congress enacted the Clean Water Act in 1972 (P.L. 92-500, the 1972 Amendments to the Federal Water Pollution Control Act), which is the principal law dealing with polluting activity in streams, rivers, lakes, and estuaries of the USA (Copeland, 2006). The Clean Water Act established a water quality standards approach for regulating water quality, with the US Environmental Pro...

Controlling agricultural nonpoint water pollution : costs of implementing the Maryland Water Quality Improvement Act of 1998 q

The Maryland Water Quality Improvement Act of 1998 (WQIA) seeks to create environmental and other benefits to the Chesapeake Bay through reductions in nonpoint source nutrient pollution. This paper analyzes the economic impacts of the WQIA on agricultural users of nutrients (commercial fertilizers or animal manures) and on poultry growers in the state of Maryland. The net economic impacts to ea...

Data Mining: Cause or Consequence

Data mining arose as a merge of several areas such as databases, statistics and artificial intelligence, and has been growing steadily in the last 20 years. Recently, the popularization of the concepts of Data Science and Big Data accelerated the process. In this seminar we try to answer the question whether data mining is cause or consequence of these recent developments through an integrated ...

Mining and Water Pollution