the vacation season. The majority of the municipalities take their drinking water from the river and provide it to more than 100,000 people. The drinking water supply to other residences and country cottages, distributed over approximately 90 percent of the watershed area, comes from water wells. Agricultural pollution Besides the urban and industrial pollution, agricultural pollution also contributes greatly to the environment's contamination. Agriculture has a dominant position along the river: in 1995 there were 1,305 producers with under cultivation and possessing 73,563 animals. Agricultural pollution takes several forms: direct pollution (discharge of manure directly in the rivers) and diffused pollution (infiltration of fertilizer products in the groundwater). Diffused pollution is difficult to control because it has a multitude of sources throughout the whole region. Yet without a solution to this problem the water quality of the river will never have the desired quality. Drainage basin watercourses List of towns crossed Saint-Côme, Quebec Saint-Alphonse-Rodriguez, Quebec Sainte-Béatrix, Quebec Saint-Jean-de-Matha, Quebec Sainte-Mélanie, Quebec Saint-Félix-de-Valois, Quebec Notre-Dame-des-Prairies, Quebec Saint-Charles-Borromée, Quebec Joliette, Quebec Saint-Paul, Quebec Saint-Gérard-Majella (merged with L'Assomption) L'Assomption, Quebec Repentigny, Quebec Le Gardeur, Quebec (merged with Repentigny) Charlemagne, Quebec References External links Corporation de l'Aménagement de la Rivière l'Assomption De l'Outaragasipi à la Rivière l'Assomption Assomption