A Watershed Approach to Improve Water Quality: Case Study of Clean Water Services' Tualatin River Program

Journal of the American Water Resources Association

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 29-38

  Cochran, Bobby ^a   Logue, Charles ^a  

^a Clean Water Services   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecosystem services; Temperature; Water policy; Water quality trading; Watershed management; Watershed based permitting

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; WATER POLICY; WATER QUALITY TRADING; WATERSHED MANAGEMENT; WATERSHED-BASED PERMITTING;

COMMERCE; ECOSYSTEMS; LANDFORMS; SOIL CONSERVATION; THERMOANALYSIS; WASTEWATER; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHEDS;

RIVERS;

BASIN MANAGEMENT; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; POLICY MAKING; RIVER DISCHARGE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WASTEWATER; WATER ECONOMICS; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED;

OREGON; TUALATIN BASIN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79251481535     PISSN: 1093474X     EISSN: 17521688     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-1688.2010.00491.x     Document Type: Article

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