National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) - Publications

• NAWQA--Informing water-resource management and protection decisions
  Describes how NAWQA information provides an unbiased scientific basis for managers, planners, and policy makers at all levels--local, state, and national--to make decisions for the protection of drinking water, the health of aquatic ecosystems, and for resource management.
• Selected findings and current perspectives on urban and agricultural water quality (pdf)
  Studies by NAWQA in nearly 120 agricultural and 35 urban watersheds show that nonpoint chemical contamination is an agricultural and urban issue.
• Summary reports
  • National summary reports
    Major findings of the NAWQA program on water-quality issues of regional and national concern, based on the first 20 Study Units.
    • The Quality of Our Nation's Waters -- Nutrients and Pesticides
      • Report
      • Fact sheet
  • Summary reports of river basin and aquifer assessments
    Findings from the first 36 National Water-Quality Assessment study units (1991-98).
    • Study unit reports
• NAWQA Bibliography
  
• NAWQA Protocols
  
• NAWQA Study Unit publication web sites
• NAWQA National Synthesis publication web sites
  • Pesticides
  • Nutrients
  • Volatile Organic Chemicals
  • Trace Elements
    
• Digital NAWQA publications (Web based)

For information about various USGS publications, you also may want to contact:

USGS Information Services
Box 25286
Denver Federal Center
Denver, Colorado 80225-0286
Tel: 303-202-4700
Fax: 303-202-4693
Email: infoservices@usgs.gov

USGS Open-File Unit
Denver, Colorado
Tel: 303-202-4210

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