Water quality in drainage canals system is under big influence of activities on surrounding agricultural land. In order to decrease transport and deposition part of plant protection chemicals and mineral fertilizers, vegetation belts with different shapes, characteristics and rules are possible to use. Besides the main purpose, this kind of belts are corridors for moving, but also place for living of wild plants and animals, what is increasing biodiversity. In that way, favourable conditions for organic agriculture in land reclamation area are possible to create.

In order to investigate the effects of wastewater from the Vrbas-Kula-Crvenka industrial basin on Grand Backa canal water quality, the water quality in the canal and the lateral canals which fall into the Grand Backa canal was examined, along with industrial water quality for ten of the most important polluters of those canals. A significant deterioration of Grand Backa canal water quality downstream of the lateral canals I-61 and I-64 was detected, as a consequence of waste water emission from the Vrbas-Kula-Crvenka industrial basin polluters. Data analysis has shown that two sugar factories are the heaviest polluters in the examined industrial basin.

In this paper the results of preliminary microbiological investigations of the canal Nadela water quality, done in order to determine level of pollution, are presented. Bacteriological analysis included the monitoring of quantitative composition of the organotrophs, presence of some physiological groups of bacteria and total number and fecal coliforms. Beside of that, level of water phosphatase activity and chlorophyll a concentration as important parameters of waterstate, were determined. Obtained results indicated low quality of the canal Nadela water and overload by organic matter, that cleary reflected negative influence of pollutants presents in that area.

Global expansion and intensification of industrialized agriculture during the last 50 years was facilitated by the replacement of labor by imported chemicals and energy, thus changing the economics and the social fabric of rural communities as well as impairing water, air, and soil resources essential to sustaining food and fiber production in a world with an increasing appetite. To effectively understand and solve complex problems resulting from this agricultural revolution, expanded communications are needed at a variety of levels. It is critical for the technical community to communicate through greater interdisciplinary research among agronomists, soil scientists, hydrologists, ecologists, and others to reduce diffuse pollution from agriculture. Also, more effective translations of technical problems and solutions are needed to influence policy. Accurate advice is needed in spite of the uncertainties that scientists too often use to obscure useful information. Education will be needed for producers and conservationists to gain confidence that promised environmental responses will occur if solutions are to be implemented at more than experimental or demonstration scales. The search for comprehensive solutions to environmental degradation will require understanding the ultimate causes of pollution, not just the proximal causes. The ultimate causes will only be found by examining the systems that facilitate the release of contaminants to the environment such as the wholesale landscape changes that replaced grazing land with annual crops leading to increased leaching and runoff. Research and demonstration projects increasingly need collaborations among agronomists, livestock scientists, soil scientists, hydrologists, economists, sociologists and others who have a stake in the study of diffuse pollution and the outcomes of any proposed solutions. Partnerships developed at the working level where basic principles can be shared will help avoid the pursuit of impractical solutions when viewed from different perspectives.