Urban runoff contributes to nonpoint source pollution, but there is little understanding of the
way that pattern and extent of urbanization contributes to this problem. Indicators of type and …

A study of water quality, land use, and population variations over the past three decades
was conducted in eastern Massachusetts to examine the impact of urban sprawl on water …

Three investigations are underway, as part of the US Geological Survey's National Water‐
Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program, to study the relation between varying levels of …

In this study, we examine the impact on water quality of urbanization using disaggregate
data from Wake County, North Carolina. We use a unique panel data set tracing the …

Abstract The Catskill/Delaware reservoirs supply 90% of New York City's drinking water. The
City has implemented a series of watershed protection measures, including land acquisition …

The capacity of a watershed to urbanize without changing its hydrologic response and the
relationship between that response and the spatial configuration of the developed areas …

Since the 1950s, the world's urban population has grown more than 400% to 3.9 billion
today. About 60% of the total population is expected to live in urban areas by the year 2025 …

We investigated spatial and temporal relationships among surface and subsurface
watershed attributes and stream nutrient concentrations in urbanizing Johnson Creek …

We formally evaluated the relationship between landscape characteristics and surface water
quality in the state of Pennsylvania (USA) by regressing two different types of pollutant …

Urbanization impacts ecosystem functions and services by fundamentally altering the
balances between precipitation, water yield (Q), and evapotranspiration (ET) in watersheds …