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: • 2008: Mississippi River Water Quality and the Clean Water Act: P rogress, Challenges, and Opportunities; • 2009: Nutrient Control Actions for Improving Water Quality in the Mississippi River Basin and Northern Gulf of Mexico; and • 2012: Improving Water Quality in the Mississippi River Basin and Northern Gulf of Mexico: Strategies and Priorities. A consistent theme throughout these three reports is the critical importance of systematic and coordinated water quality evaluation and monitoring as a basis for improved scientific understanding of the links 1
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Those reports have encouraged stronger collaboration among these ten river corridor states in water quality monitoring activities, and also noted opportunities for a stronger role for federal agencies with water quality monitoring expertise and responsibilities. To further complement the work of these previous NRC studies, a two-day workshop was convened to focus on science initiatives and challenges in Mississippi River basin water quality monitoring and evaluation.
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Goals of the two-day workshop include the following: • romote basin-wide dialogue of current scientific understanding of water p quality conditions, • iscuss scientific uncertainties, relevant issues of time and scale, and prior d ity areas for future water quality monitoring and evaluation, • iscuss ongoing programs for nutrient management and downstream water d quality implications, • iscuss institutional frameworks for future water quality evaluation and d administration, and • rovide a platform for future discussion, collaboration, and learning of water p quality conditions and changes along the Mississippi River and across the river basin. Following the workshop, the committee will convene an additional meeting at which it will prepare a brief consensus report that provides the committee's con clusions regarding scientific challenges and priorities for Mississippi River water q uality monitoring and evaluation.
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Agricultural producers, university scientists and extension experts, state and federal agencies, nongovernmental organizations, and the pri 0.6 % 58% 18% 21% [w & w 2.4 %] 500 km FIGURE 1.1-1 Mississippi River basin, tributaries, land uses, and typical and typical FIGURE Mississippi River basin, major major tributaries, land uses, summertime extent of northern Gulf of Mexico hypoxia (in red)
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Prominent interstate bodies, such as the Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission (ORSANCO) and the Upper Mississippi River Basin Association (UMRBA)
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Numerous federal, state, local, and private sector programs and activities have been established and are devoted to monitoring, evaluating, and modeling of water quality, and the effects of nutrients across the M ississippi River basin. All these activities of course have varying mandates, missions, and activities but portions of these programs are devoted to managing water quality and the implications of nutrient loads.
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