ABSTRACT
Soil erosion and its control have both direct and indirect impacts on the quality of water resources receiving drainage from agricultural lands. The direct impacts are more obvious and are related to problems of the physical presence of sediment such as the need for filtration for drinking water use, sediment deposition on reducing reservoir capacity or waterway navigation/convergence, and turbidity affecting the “health” of the aquatic ecosystem. Less obvious are the indirect effects of eroded soil related to the pollutants that are transported with sediment, and the indirect effects of soil erosion control as related to how soil erosion control practices that are used affect other practices and processes-the topics of this manuscript.
