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Topic: Water Management and Governance

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2005 Status Report on Compensatory Mitigation in the United States

Almanac of Enforceable State Laws to Control Nonpoint Source Water Pollution

Analysis of the Numeric Water Quality Criteria Adopted by the Ten States That Border Directly on the Mississippi River

Analysis of the Numeric Water Quality Criteria Adopted by the Ten States That Border Directly on the Mississippi River: Arkansas

Analysis of the Numeric Water Quality Criteria Adopted by the Ten States That Border Directly on the Mississippi River: Illinois

Analysis of the Numeric Water Quality Criteria Adopted by the Ten States That Border Directly on the Mississippi River: Iowa

Analysis of the Numeric Water Quality Criteria Adopted by the Ten States That Border Directly on the Mississippi River: Kentucky

Analysis of the Numeric Water Quality Criteria Adopted by the Ten States That Border Directly on the Mississippi River: Louisiana

Analysis of the Numeric Water Quality Criteria Adopted by the Ten States That Border Directly on the Mississippi River: Minnesota

Analysis of the Numeric Water Quality Criteria Adopted by the Ten States That Border Directly on the Mississippi River: Mississippi

Analysis of the Numeric Water Quality Criteria Adopted by the Ten States That Border Directly on the Mississippi River: Missouri

Analysis of the Numeric Water Quality Criteria Adopted by the Ten States That Border Directly on the Mississippi River: Tennessee

Analysis of the Numeric Water Quality Criteria Adopted by the Ten States That Border Directly on the Mississippi River: Wisconsin

Anchoring the Clean Water Act: Congress’s Constitutional Sources of Power to Protect the Nation’s Waters

Banks and Fees: The Status of Off-Site Wetland Mitigation in the United States

Clean Water Act Jurisdictional Handbook

Enforceable State Mechanisms for the Control of Nonpoint Source Water Pollution

Facility Inspections Under a Water Discharge Permitting Program

Forests for the Bay

Gold Standard Evaluation: Whole Foods Market Aquaculture Purchasing Standards

Gold Standard for Sustainable Aquaculture Ecolabel Design: Summary Report

Homeland Security and Drinking Water: An Opportunity for Comprehensive Protection of a Vital Natural Resource

In-Lieu Fee Mitigation: Model Instrument Language and Resources

Locating Livestock: How Water Pollution Control Efforts Can Use Information from State Regulatory Programs

Marine Spatial Planning in US Waters: An Assessment and Analysis of Existing Legal Mechanisms, Anticipated Barriers, and Future Opportunities

National Forum on Synergies Between Water Quality Trading and Wetland Mitigation Banking

National Symposium on Compensatory Mitigation and the Watershed Approach

Penalties for Water Pollution Violations

Planning for Development and Sewage Infrastructure: Can We Be Consistent?

Plumbing the Future: Sewage Infrastructure Sustainability in Western Pennsylvania

Putting the Pieces Together: State Nonpoint Source Enforceable Mechanisms in Context

Regional and Collaborative Approaches to Water, Sewer, and Stormwater Management in Pennsylvania

Report for Great Lakes Protection Fund: Potential Federal Preemption of Laws in the Great Lakes States

Safe Drinking Water Workshop for Consumers

Smart Growth and the Clean Water Act

State Regulation of Animal Feeding Operations: Seven State Summaries

State Wetland Program Evaluation: Phase I

State Wetland Program Evaluation: Phase II

State Wetland Program Evaluation: Phase III

Survey and Analysis of State Groundwater Classification Systems and Program Operations

The Status and Character of In-Lieu Fee Mitigation in the United States

Western Water in the 21st Century Policies and Programs that Stretch Supplies in a Prior Appropriation World

Wetland Avoidance and Minimization in Action: Perspectives from Experience

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