(Press-News.org) Water quality could be degraded by development and conversion of forests upstream, with sediment levels and nitrogen concentrations also worsened, per modelling analysis of the Middle Chattahoochee watershed of Georgia, Alabama, and Florida.
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Article URL: https://plos.io/3Gi6Kaq
Article Title: Projected land use changes will cause water quality degradation at drinking water intakes across a regional watershed
Author Countries: United States
Funding: This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service Southern Research Station by agreement number 20-CS-11330180-053 to Dr. Katherine Martin at North Carolina State University. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
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Water quality could be degraded by development and conversion of forests upstream, with sediment levels and nitrogen concentrations also worsened, per modelling analysis of the Middle Chattahoochee wa
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