Advances in Water Quality Trading as a Flexible Compliance Tool explores the status of water quality trading and recent changes in the industry and is a guide for implementing and using water quality trading for regulatory compliance purposes. Topics such as current legal and regulatory challenges, in depth case studies, and future applications are discussed in detail. This book offers a look at where and how optimizing investments in water quality through trading are unfolding. Municipalities, industries, agencies, and environmental organizations all benefit from this guidance.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction, History, and Concept
Chapter 2: Elements Affecting the Water Sector of Water Quality Trading—Point Sources and Nonpoint Sources
Chapter 3: Current Policy Directions
Chapter 4: Financial, Environmental, and Social Effects of Water Quality Trading
Chapter 5: Legal Challenges to Trading
Chapter 6: The Future of Water Quality Trading
Chapter 7: Chesapeake Bay States: Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Maryland
Chapter 8: Case Study of Trading in the Great Miami River Watershed, Ohio
Chapter 9: Minnesota
Chapter 10: California
Chapter 11: North Carolina
Chapter 12: Connecticut’s Long Island Sound Nitrogen Credit Exchange
Chapter 13: Oregon’s Case Study in the Evolution of Water Quality Trading
Chapter 14: Water Quality Trading in Ontario: The South Nation River and Lake Simcoe Experiences
Chapter 15: Concluding Remarks

Order No: P150004
Pages: 342
Publisher: Water Environment Federation
Year: 2015

Advances in Water Quality Trading as a Flexible Compliance Tool is also available as an e-book for the Apple iPad or Amazon Kindle.

This book was prepared by the Advances in Water Quality Trading as a Flexible Compliance Tool Task Force of the Water Environment Federation