INTERNATIONAL EFFORTS  

Summit for Finding Common Ground in Controlling Agricultural Nonpoint Sources of Nutrients

THE SUMMIT

Purpose

Accepted Principles

Central Questions

Participants

Logistics

Reports

EUTROPHICATION

What is it?

U.S. Assessments

International Efforts

Management Programs

AGRICULTURAL SOURCES

Relative Importance

Fertilizers

Animal Wastes

Soil Mineralization

Management Practices

Cover Crops

POLICIES

Economic Analyses

Clean Water Act

State Statutes

Pending Legislation

Eutrophication caused agricultural sources on nutrients is a world wide problem.  Reports that address these nutrient problems and efforts to control agricultural nonpoint sources include the following:  

• European Environmental Agency report Nutrient in European ecosystems—Environmental assessment report N^o 4.

• Danube Pollution Reduction Programme, Causes and Effects of Eutrophication in the Black Sea (6.2MB pdf file, Adobe Acrobat Reader required).  

Last updated September 17, 2001