Phosphorus pollution can linger for decades in soils and streams, shaping water quality long after sources are reduced.
Plants need phosphorus, an essential nutrient, to grow. This nutrient is present in fertilizers and applied to crops to increase their yields. One downside of too much phosphorus in this agricultural ...
Wastewater in the Halstad city facility, pictured Feb. 15, is treated using bacteria. By adjusting the bacterial activity, the city reduced phosphorus and nitrogen in the treated wastewater released ...
Phosphorus threatens a key bay in Lake Champlain. WAMC’s North Country Bureau Chief Pat Bradley reports on the Lake Champlain Basin program and other stakeholder’s efforts to stem the pollution.
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Phosphorus is integral to agriculture and human life. We can’t grow any of our food without it. Of the phosphorus fertilizers applied, perhaps 20% ends up consumed in the final product. Large amounts ...
Water Environment Research, Vol. 90, No. 11 (November 2018), pp. 1956-1963 (8 pages) A year-long field investigation was carried out in the most heavily polluted bay of Lake Chaohu to assess the ...
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