Once a purely technical subdiscipline of hydrology, water quality management is now a social and political discipline whose concerns range from ensuring

Water Quality Management: An Evolving Field for Changing Values; History of Water Quality Management: The Problem and Its Science; Attitudes, Goals and Management Strategies; Global Water Resources and How They Are Used: The Expression of Goals and Objectives; Developing Standards from the Traditions of Toxicology; Classification and Environmental Quality Assessment: The Search for Ecologically Accurate Aquatic Metrics; The Role of Scale Issues in Water Quality Management; Water and Hydrologic Cycle; Rivers and Streams: One-Way Flow System; Groundwater and Water Quality: Water to Live On; Coastal Zone Water Quality Management; Lakes and Water Impact; Wetlands: Protective, Vital, Cleansing and Threatened; Structuring Water Management Goals by Ecological Levels; Responses to Stress at the Ecosystem, Community, Population and Individual Levels; Regionalization of Resources Management; Effects of Land Use on Water Quality; Management of Water Quality in a Forested Landscape; Management of Water Quality in an Agricultural Landscape; Management of Water Quality in an Urban Landscape; Special Issue: Acidification of Freshwater Resources; Special Issue: Global Change: A Proactive Management Challenge; Special Issue: Exotics: A Special Biological Pollution; Cultural Dimensions of Water Quality Policy; Paradigms in Motion; Decision Making in Practice: Case Studies