Market Based Strategies & Nutrient Trading: What you need to know
- Published:
- January 1, 1995
- Originator:
- Chesapeake Bay Program
A central water qulity management problem in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed and its tributaries is nutrient enrichment by nitrogen and phosphorous loads from point and nonpoint sources. The recent evaluation of the nutrient issue in the Potomac basin by the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality, et al., (1995, i) states, "water Quality degradation caused by nutrient over-enrichment has played a key role in the decline of the living resources of the Potomac River and the Chesapeake Bay."