Pennsylvania’s waterways face numerous threats, including excess nutrient loading, sedimentation, decreased flow, chemical pollutants, invasive species, access, and recreational conflict. In the last decade, there was a rapid expansion of community watershed organizations (CWOs) aimed at solving local watershed issues across the commonwealth and the nation. The development of local, volunteer-led watershed organizations seems to represent a paradigm shift to a community-based approach for generating long-term solutions to local watershed problems.
http://www.rural.palegislature.us/watersheds_higdon.pdf
Year: 2005
Organization/Source: Center for Rural Pennsylvania
Topic tags: Environmental Benefits of Water Quality and Water Resources