USDA & EPA Sign Water Quality Credit Trading Agreement
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filed under:
conservation
On Friday, USDA and EPA signed a partnership agreement to establish andpromote water quality credit trading markets through cooperativeconservation.
Water quality credit trading uses a market-based approachthat offers incentives to farmers and ranchers who implement conservation
practices that improve water quality. Conservation districts across the
country are already involved in water quality trading, bringing landowners
together with representatives of industrial or municipal facilities that
are regulated under the Clean Water Act to facilitate a credit trade.
Districts can aid in adoption of conservation practices, monitor
performance or aggregate participation – reaching out to more landowners
for greater environmental impact. Earlier this year, CTIC released a report
Getting Paid for Stewardship: An Agricultural Community Water Quality
Trading Guide. It is posted at
