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How can nutrient trading be used to reduce nutrient pollution?
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Nutrient trading can be used to reduced nutrient pollution within the context of a mandatory cap on the total quantity of nutrients entering the water, or within the context of a voluntary, open program with a percentage reduction goal. In either context, the goal is to cost-effectively reduce the amount of nutrients that enter a waterway.


   
 

 



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