Watershed Prioritization for Drinking Water Protection

To prioritize Texas watersheds by forest importance to surface drinking water for source water protection, four main factors were considered: (1) watershed ...

Watershed Planning | Missouri Department of Natural Resources

Source Water Protection Program - A program that supports local efforts to protect drinking water sources, while offering public water systems an ...

Addressing Water Quality Challenges Using a Watershed Approach

Working together to address today's water resource challenges using a watershed approach is the most effective framework to protect our nation's water ...

A watershed-based land prioritization model for water supply ...

Water quality management at a watershed scale is important for water supply protection. Escalating costs of water treatment, along with the need for ...

Land Prioritization Mapping for Protecting Drinking Water Quality

It is no secret that how we use our land has an impact on drinking water. Preserving and conserving specific parcels of land could protect the source of ...

Priority watershed management areas for groundwater recharge ...

Worldwide, water utilities and other water users increasingly seek to finance watershed protection and restoration in order to maintain or ...

Advancing Watershed Protection Through Land Conservation

This guide covers fundamental topics such as key watershed terms, the watershed approach, EPA water programs and sources of funding for land conservation ...

4 Watershed Management For Source Water Protection

Today, it is well understood that water utilities should both control contaminant discharges into watersheds and prevent any unwise land use in watersheds that ...

How We Protect Watersheds - The Nature Conservancy

Watershed protection is a means of protecting a lake, river, or stream by managing the entire watershed that drains into it. Clean, healthy watersheds depend on ...

A Watershed-Based Land Prioritization Model for Water Supply ...

Water quality management at a watershed scale is important for water supply protection. Escalating costs of water treatment, along with the need for ...

Appendix x: Priority Watersheds - USDA Forest Service

Drinking Water Protection Zones are required in Utah and Colorado as part of Drinking Water Source. Protection for surface and groundwater supplying public ...

Water is Fundamental: Source Water Protection Week 2024

River Network's prioritization of drinking water has shifted since then – as it has for many river and watershed groups – but I was struck by ...

Watershed Protection

Encourage land use planning and zoning approaches that protect water quality, such as open space and overlay districts. · Implement Environmental Site Design ...

Parcel Prioritization for Drinking Water Protection in the Upper ...

The Upper Neuse River Basin spans six counties in the Piedmont region of North Carolina and is the drinking water source for over half a million people.

Prioritizing Stream Protection, Restoration and Management Actions ...

Watershed protection benefits biological and human communities, as healthy water- sheds provide clean water, healthy ecosystems and habitats ...

Ten strategies for Successful Source Water Protection

land conservation priorities, and clean water programs. Their leadership ... dates for clean water and safe drinking water, have set up watershed management ...

How Science Can Inform Land Protection for Healthy Watersheds ...

How much of a watershed must remain forested to produce clean water? And what kind of information do water utilities, government agencies, and other funders ...

Watershed protection: Capturing the benefits of nature's water ...

Keywords: Watersheds; Drinking water; Water quality; Ecosystem services; Natural capital; Land use; Rural landscapes; Soil and water conservation. 1.

Source Water Protection | Natural Resources Conservation Service

Identifying local priority areas for drinking water protection in each State. This is done in collaboration with State technical committees and community water ...

Land Prioritization Map - ArcGIS StoryMaps

The stakeholder-developed objective statement for the prioritization scheme was to rank parcels to protect drinking water quality and their potential to degrade ...