Nitrate Sensitive Areas

NSAs are carefully selected areas covering groundwater sources used to supply drinking water. In these areas incentives were offered to farmers to undertake significant changes in agricultural practices to reduce nitrate leaching, thereby helping stabalise or reduce nitrate levels. There are 32 NSAs in England. Note this scheme is now closed to new applicants Attribution statement: © Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right [year].

国家级保护区（NSAs）系经过精心挑选的区域，覆盖了用于供应饮用水的水源地下含水层。在这些区域内，向农民提供激励措施，以促使他们实施重大变革，调整农业耕作方式，从而降低硝酸盐渗透，有助于稳定或降低硝酸盐含量。英格兰共有32个国家级保护区。请注意，此计划现已关闭对新申请者的接纳。归属声明：© 自然英格兰版权。包含军用地形数据 © 王室版权及数据库权利 [年份]。