Diffuse pollution, degraded waters: emerging policy solutions

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Title Statements

Full title :Diffuse pollution, degraded waters : emerging policy solutions.

Summary

After decades of regulation and investment to reduce point source water pollution, OECD countries still face water quality challenges (e.g. eutrophication) from diffuse agricultural and urban sources of pollution, that is disperse pollution from surface runoff, soil filtration and atmospheric deposition. The relative lack of progress reflects the complexities of controlling multiple pollutants from multiple sources, their high spatial and temporal variability, associated transactions costs, and limited political acceptability of regulatory measures. This report outlines the water quality challenges facing OECD countries today, presents a range of policy instruments and innovative case studies of diffuse pollution control, and concludes with an integrated policy framework to tackle diffuse water pollution. An optimal approach will likely entail a mix of policy interventions reflecting the basic OECD principles of water quality management - pollution prevention, treatment at source, the polluter pays and beneficiary pays principles, equity, and policy coherence.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2017

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):OECD
Place of Publication:Paris
Language:eng
Publication Date:2017

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (118 pages) : : color illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9264269061, 9789264269064, 9264269053, 9789264269057
DOI:10.1787/9789264269064-en
oclc:ocn981456209
LC Classification:TD420

Foreword and Acknowledgements -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Executive summary -- The Water Quality Challenge -- An overview of the main water pollutants in OECD countries -- Economic costs and policy approaches to control diffuse source water pollution -- Emerging policy instruments for the control of diffuse source water pollution -- A policy framework for diffuse source water pollution management.