The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Mid-Atlantic Water Protection Program uses the environmental indicators tool to measure progress in reaching its goals toward water quality improvements.

The primary use of an indicator is to characterize current status and to track or predict significant change.

EPA's recently launched Water Protection program webpages highlight these indicators, what they are and how EPA uses them to measure and report success.

To view this information, visit the Water Protection Program webpage.

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