Watershed protection, and associated in situ water quality improvements, has received
considerable attention as a means for mitigating health risks and avoiding expenditures at …

This paper provides a comprehensive review of two decades of published research that
applies different economic approaches to address forested watershed management …

The aim of this paper is to quantify the impact of the forest on raw water quality within the
framework of other land uses. On the basis of measurements of quality parameters that were …

Forests provide the most stable and highest quality water supplies among all land uses.
Quantitatively evaluating the benefits of forest water supply functions is important to …

Conversion of natural land cover can degrade water quality in water supply watersheds and
increase treatment costs for Public Water Systems (PWSs), but there are few studies that …

Water pollution is an urgent problem that needs to be controlled via green transformation
and the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt (YREB). Based on the water …

Anthropogenic disturbances to the environment can compromise valuable ecosystem
services, including the provision of potable water. These disturbances decrease water …

Forest cover improves surface water quality by minimizing soil erosion, reducing sediment in
water and trap** or filtering water pollutants in forest litter. Because the amount of …

The concept of ecosystem services (ES) remains underused in supporting practical
decisions in conservation/development plans and programs. One of the most important …

A small but growing number of watershed investment programs in the western United States
focus on wildfire risk reduction to municipal water supplies. This paper used return on …