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Efficiency and Equity Aspects of Nonpoint Source Pollution Controls

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2015

Stan R. Spurlock  and
Ivery D. Clifton
Stan R. Spurlock
Affiliation:
Mississippi State University
Ivery D. Clifton
Affiliation:
University of Georgia
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Achieving water quality goals will necessitate adoption of best management practices (BMP's) by some or all farmers. Water quality is expected to improve as farmers adopt BMP's such as conservation cropping systems, structural measures, and conservation tillage methods. Currently, there is an absence of pollution abatement incentives strong enough to induce farmers to abate sediment, nutrients, and pesticides to desirable social levels. Although a specific socially optimal level of pollutants may be difficult (or impossible) to quantify, the U.S. Congress, by passing the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972 (P. L. 92-500), has demonstrated the need for improvements in water quality.

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Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 14 , Issue 2 , December 1982 , pp. 123 - 129
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Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 1982

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