Description: The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, an independent
international organization for promotion of economic development in member
countries is concerned with both the qualitative and quantitative aspects of economic growth. The Environment Committee of OECD is assisted by a number of
delegate groups concerned with policy development in specific sectors of the
overall environmental problem. One of these groups is the Water Management
Sector Group, which in 1971 established a Steering Group on Eutrophication
Control to develop a series of cooperative projects for monitoring eulrophication
in inland waters. The overall objective of these projects was the achievement of comparability on nutrient budgets, chemical balances, and biological
productivity in water bodies.
