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A 2011 survey of Mexico City’s households revealed that families prefer alternative sources of drinking water instead of relying in the city’s quality supply services. These include the purchase of bottled water, installation of filtration devices, and other means of water purification. The...
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pollution to estimate the water quality changes arising from such instruments. A case study of the agriculturally diverse … proposed to the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) for tackling diffuse agricultural pollution: (i …
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This paper explores the impact of water quality on mortality by exploiting a natural experiment. the rise of tea consumption in 18th century England. This resulted in an unintentional increase in consumption of boiled water, thereby reducing mortality rates. The methodology uses two identication...
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The paper describes a relatively new approach to pollution reduction problem solving that relies on negotiation between … agreements between authorities and polluters. Design and results of a laboratory environmental policy experiment on air pollution … new institution for environmental pollution management in practice is the most important result. The case also shows the …
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under climate change, all countries should consider improving their policies to reduce pollution from agriculture, and …
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pollution. Finally, it questions how the principle fits into the Green Deal and future water-related challenges in the EU. This …
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Aquatic life water quality criteria are numeric or narrative descriptions of water quality that protect aquatic life from unhealthy water conditions. The Clean Water Act (CWA) requires the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to develop and, as necessary, revise “criteria for water...
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addressing nonpoint source pollution. But the relative effort that governments need to devote to fulfilling each of the five …
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such, the federal statutory scheme for the regulation of nonpoint source water pollution places primary regulatory … legislative context; comparing and contrasting the approaches to nonpoint source pollution pursuant to the CWA and CZMA, as each …
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The Supreme Court's new federalism has struck its strongest blows so far on the Clean Water Act. In 2007, a sharply divided Court nearly struck down a large chunk of the Act's protection of wetlands and other small waterways – five years after an earlier decision had narrowed the reach of the...
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