About two-thirds of the nation's counties were included in the reporting areas for public issues education, and more than 5 million drinking water wells were located in the reporting areas for final national goal. Reduction in total herbicide, insecticide and fungicide coverage of the acres of crops tracked in program reporting areas was essentially non-existent. The number of counties that received Extension public issues education increased to 1,375. Such data are needed. Extent of Program Target Achievement Targets for 1995 reported by a subset of State ESs are compared with 1995 outcomes in the table below.
Major needs remain.
Successes documented in the report suggest potential for further integra-tion of Extension water quality work with USDA water quality programs.