Agricultural Water Quality: Watershed Model

A special issue of AgriEngineering (ISSN 2624-7402).

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Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin, Rockville, MD 20850, USA
Interests: Hydrologic and water quality modeling, water quality sampling and analysis, non-point source data analysis, GIS analysis, landuse/land cover change and best management practices (BMPs) assessments, Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) and watershed implementation plan development.

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

One of the biggest water quality problems in agricultural watersheds stems from surface runoff that transports a variety of pollutants into rivers, streams and lakes. These pollutants may vary from sediment, nutrients and pesticides to oil and pathogens. To mitigate the impact of pollutants in surface runoff and to protect surface water quality, watershed managers have designed and implemented conservation practices that are based on water quality controls implemented both at the field scale and at the watershed scale. These conservation practices are sets of land management practices implemented to control soil, nutrient and other chemical loss that often leads to degradation of surface and subsurface water quality. Conservation practices also help to improve agricultural lands, protect natural resources, forests and wildlife habitats. Despite significant efforts, the implementation of cost effective and sustainable practices to guarantee the desired outcome represents a challenge to which all stakeholders should respond. In this sense, the Special Issue of AgriEngineering entitled "Agricultural Water Quality: Watershed Model" intends to offer a space for members of the scientific community to share their research findings and their valuable expertise related to watershed modeling, with a particular interest towards new and innovative techniques and technologies to quantify the effects of conservation practices on water quality and other environmental parameters, and to develop/apply water quality models and determine their uncertainty at predicting water quality parameters. Colleagues dealing with these issues are warmly invited to contribute with their papers, thus enabling the enrichment of the existing knowledge.

Keywords

  • agricultural runoff
  • best management practices
  • climate change
  • conservation practices
  • critical source areas
  • ecological impact
  • environmental pollutants
  • nitrogen
  • nutrients: pesticide
  • phosphorus
  • sediment
  • water quality
  • watershed modeling

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