River basins: the environmental engines to keep us all running.
The importance of clean water, good sanitation and a healthy environment demands better management of planning, control and regulation with catchments increasingly being the administrative basis of regional management. It then makes eminent sense from a theoretical and practical point of view to use the basin as the administrative unit to model and administer an integrated environmental protection regime.
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Environment Agency, England and Wales, Slepey House, Honey Hill, Fenstanton, Cambs, PE 28 9JP, UK. pmatthews@pelicanport.freeserve.co.uk
D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources; D006801:Humans; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D011634:Public Health; D045483:Rivers; D012499:Sanitation; D014881:Water Supply