1. 1...and a lot of it passes through agricultural land (picture taken at midnight in northern Sweden!!) (picture taken at midnight in northern Sweden!!)

2. 2 Two monitoring programmes are carried out within the framework of the Swedish environmental monitoring framework of the Swedish environmental monitoring programme (Swedish Environmental Protection Agency) programme (Swedish Environmental Protection Agency) to illustrate the influence of agricultural land use on ground- to illustrate the influence of agricultural land use on ground- and surface waters. and surface waters. One of the monitoring programmes, Agricultural fields, One of the monitoring programmes, Agricultural fields, consists of a number of agricultural fields where the water consists of a number of agricultural fields where the water quality in drainage discharge and groundwater is measured. quality in drainage discharge and groundwater is measured. The other monitoring programme, Small catchments consists of a number of small catchments dominated by agricultural land where the stream water quality is measured. agricultural land where the stream water quality is measured.

3. 3 General Objectives To determine the influence of agriculture on the quality of To determine the influence of agriculture on the quality of surface and ground water in both a short and a long term perspective. To determine if water quality goals will be reached by the To determine if water quality goals will be reached by the measures taken in agricultural management. To form the basis for: To form the basis for: Initiating measures for further increasing water quality Initiating measures for further increasing water quality Making scenarios if and how water quality goals can be Making scenarios if and how water quality goals can be reached e.g. management reached e.g. management Making extrapolations from the investigated areas to Making extrapolations from the investigated areas to larger areas larger areas