This component of the National Integrated Water Quality Program seeks to integrate water quality research, education, and extension to solve water quality problems at the whole watershed level. It brings together the three components of the agricultural knowledge system (research, education, and extension) together around a problem area or activity.

Successful Integrated Research, Education, and Extenstion Projects demonstrate a good potential of contributing to the creation of long term information, expand on existing opportunities for leveraging support and cost sharing, as well as promote active public and private sector participation. These programs take advantage of the participatory educational and extension opportunities engendered by the watershed's restoration and its continued management. Finally, some programs focus on watersheds where the project will better inform policy makers in developing the most equitable multistate and/or regional strategies for water quality improvement.

Visit these links for examples of Integrated Research, Education, and Extension Projects:

Experimental Manipulation of Entire Watersheds through Best Management Practices (BMPs): Nutrient Fluxes, Fate, Transport and Biotic Responses (SUNY at Brockport)

Enhancing Phosphorus Strategies in the Kalamazoo River Basin

Paired Watershed Studies for Nutrient Reductions in the Minnesota River Basin

Integrated Agricultural Management Systems in Kansas

Tallapoosa Watershed Project (TWP)

For a complete listing of Integrated Research, Education, and Extension Projects by year, visit the following funded project pages:

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