OVERVIEW OF CANADIAN WATERSHED MONITORING PROGRAMS FOR IMPROVED WATER QUALITY

摘要: Pollution from intensive agricultural production is a major contributor to water quality degradation in Canada. Activities such as forestry and hydroelectric development rural areas also endanger quality. The need develop good management practices reduce contamination has led the initiation of numerous watershed modeling studies. Great Lakes basin studies 1970s formed technical methodological basis for future More recently, implementation various governmental programs Canada Green Plan promoted an integrated ecosystems approach that achieves improvement by focusing on socio-economic aspects resources management. Some significant initiated recent years are discussed present paper.