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J. Water Resource and Protection, 2010, 2, 362-372 doi:10.4236/jwarp.2010.24042 Published Online April 2010 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/jwarp) Evaluation of Non-Point Source N and P Loads in a Small Mixed Land Use Land Cover Watershed 1 1 2 Ashok Mishra , Rajendra Singh , Vijay P. Singh 1 Agricultural and Food Engineering Department , Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India 2Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering Department of Civil Environmental Engineering, Texas A M University, College Station, USA E-mail : amishra 19@ , rsingh@agfe.iitkgp.ernet.in, vsingh@ Received August 10, 2009; revised September 8, 2009; accepted October 28, 2009 Abstract Non-point source pollution (NPS) of water resources has become a major problem in recent years due to more human interactions and disturbances to natural landscapes. The problem can have more impacts in sub-humid subtropical regions where high intensity monsoon rains have greater effects on hydrologic proc- esses and thus the assessment of those effects is necessitated for strategic water resources and environmental management. Since spatial and temporal changes of NPS pollutants are difficult to assess on a watershed scale, the assessment can be done effectively using a suitable water quantity-quality model coupled with GIS and remote sensing that incorporates spatial variations. The objective of this study was to assess the N and P loads from a small mixed type watershed comprising different land use land covers with the aid of Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT)-a hydrologic-water quality model. The model was cal