Alabama Water Quality Information System

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	1.-		Are current funding levels adequate to address the growing water pollution problems in the United States?


	2.-		Are there tax incentives for brownfield redevelopment?


	3.-		Does low impact development (LID) have economic benefits over other methods of urban stormwater management to protect water quality?


	4.-		Does the 2002 Farm Bill (Farm Security and Rural Investment Act) adequately address water resources management concerns?


	5.-		How can nutrient trading benefit me and my watershed?


	6.-		How does EPA currently determine if drinking water treatment variances should be made available for states to grant to small systems?


	7.-		How does pollution credit marketing work as a type of pollutant trading to improve water quality?


	8.-		How much does acid rain cost?


	9.-		How much does beach water quality monitoring cost?


	10.-		How much impact can protecting natural land cover have on source water protection in a watershed and ultimately on drinking water treatment costs?


	11.-		How much would it cost to implement state-wide biological water quality monitoring?


	12.-		If I live in a major metropolitan area is it legal for me to put a salt-based water softener on my household plumbing system?


	13.-		Is it likely that the U.S. will establish a federal water tax in the near future?


	14.-		Should stricter water criteria be imposed on farmers in developing countries who use recycled water (reclaimed water) from untreated or partially treated wastewater effluent to irrigate their crops?


	15.-		What are some of the things pollution trading is not and does not do?


	16.-		What are the environmental benefits of improved water efficiency?


	17.-		What can I do with the tools in NutrientNet?


	18.-		What costs my community more�recycling or throwing trash away?


	19.-		What is a federal water tax?


	20.-		What is a small system drinking water treatment variance as per the Safe Drinking Water Act?


	21.-		What is watershed-based pollutant trading?


	22.-		What type of conflicts are common for instream uses of water?


	23.-		When will it become cheap enough to desalt seawater to offset developing water shortages in the western United States?


	24.-		Why is the water supply industry considered to be a rising cost industry?


	25.-		Why should I be concerned about procedures to prevent the introduction and spread of aquatic nuisance species?

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This website was developed by the ACES Water Quality Team, under the leadership of Dr. James E. Hairston. It is funded, in part, by USDA-CSREES water quality grant support under Section 406 of the Agricultural Research, Extension and Education Reform Act of 1998.