The effects of fertilizer run off can cause serious economic and environmental consequences. Learn more about eutrophication and algae and help prevent this issue in our communities.
For more information refer to the following links:
- Air pollution: nutrient enrichment: https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services/air-pollution/quality-environment-economy/ecosystem/effects-soil-water/nutrient-enrichment.html
- Personal Actions That Help to Prevent and Stop Eutrophication: https://greentumble.com/personal-actions-that-help-to-prevent-eutrophication/
- What Are the Causes of Fertilizer Runoff?: https://homeguides.sfgate.com/causes-fertilizer-runoff-77148.html
- EOLakeWatch: Remote sensing of algal blooms: https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services/water-overview/satellite-earth-observations-lake-monitoring/remote-sensing-algal-blooms.html
- Nerite Snails Algae Eating: Diet, & Food Sources: https://tinyurl.com/auw8mvh3
- Algal Blooms Consistently Produce Complex Mixtures of Cyanotoxins and Co-Occur with Taste-and-Odor Causing Compounds in 23 Midwestern Lakes: https://toxics.usgs.gov/highlights/algal_toxins/
For more information about Water Quality check out our atlas.