Sustainable water management often emphasizes water resource quantity, with focus on availability and use practices. However, only a subset of the available water may be usable when also considering water quality. Water quality management is examined within three broad sectors—urban, agriculture, and environmental systems—to investigate how water quality sustainability (WQS) is defined by each ...

Background: Consistent with Rule 100 of Michigan’s Water Quality Standards (WQS), Lake Allegan is protected for warmwater fishery, other indigenous aquatic life and wildlife, agriculture, navigation, industrial water supply, partial body contact recreation, and total body contact recreation. Prioritization of the Lake Allegan TMDL was driven by Michigan’s five-year rotating watershed assessment...

With mounting scientific evidence demonstrating adverse global climate change (GCC) impacts to water quality, quality policies, such as the Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs) under U.S. Clean Water Act, have begun accounting for GCC effects in setting nutrient load-reduction policy targets. These targets generally require reductions attaining prescribed standards (WQS) by safe levels of concentr...

High-school students’ understanding of science as a result of using the RiverWeb Water Quality Simulator (WQS), a Web-based water management simulation, is described. Eight student pairs participated in a series of science activities, which revolved around using the WQS to explore the impact of land use on water quality. Students received scaffolded pedagogical support from several teachers whi...

Maize silage is forage of high quality and yield, and represents the second most important use of maize in the United States. The Wisconsin Quality Synthetic (WQS) maize population has undergone five cycles of recurrent selection for silage yield and composition, resulting in a genetically improved population. The application of high-density molecular markers allows breeders and geneticists to ...

Maize silage is a forage of high quality and yield, and represents the second 30 most important use of maize in the U.S. The Wisconsin Quality Synthetic (WQS) maize 31 population has undergone five cycles of recurrent selection for silage yield and 32 composition resulting in a genetically improved population. The application of high-33 density molecular markers allows breeders and geneticists ...

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