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Case Study 4: Effectiveness of pollution control measures under scenarios of future climate and land cover change at the catchment scale.

Despite the uncertainty in future climate and land use, large-scale measures put in place today to improve water quality are likely to remain effective in the future in northeast Scotland. Dynamic models can provide useful indications of the likely lag time between the implementation of measures and improvements in water quality.