Eutrophication

Too many nutrients, algae grows, there is no light, plants die, there is oxygen depletion

The primary causes for eutrophication are anthropogenic Detergents and fertilizer
However there is the case of natural causes.
Eutrophication will cause at the end the dead of many organisms in the body water, most of the times because the lack of oxygen.
This phenomena is specially harmful in slow moving water bodies.

How do we stop it?

• Controlling the runoff from crop fields and from urban areas
• Control the amount of fertilizers used in agricultural practices
• Develop buffer zones around body water. Growing plants around them. The plants will absorb the excess of nutrients
• Set water treatments on sewage sources.
• Oxygenize the water
• Drench the sediment off the water.