Eutrophication

Prevention of the process of Eutrophication

Eutrophication is simply a process in which excess nutrients are deposited into water bodies like streams , lakes and estuaries and this causes excessive growth of plants like algae and other weeds to spring up and grow on the water surface . Ever peeped out of the window in your car but what you see is just a stream with plants growing on the surface ? What happened there is eutrophication

Should we then wait till our water bodies are all affected by eutrophication ? How could we prevent the

process of eutrophication in any body of water ? I will make an attempt in answering these questions in the following paragraphs

The first way of preventing eutrophication is by via wetland plants This will make phosphate on the wetland area and the removal of toxins and stinking particles from catchments waters that are eventually fed to water reclamation plants or via conservative artificial wetland that consists of earth , bacteria , and aquatic plants

Another method is simply by removal of nutrients and excess plants . O must warn that this is laborious work . This has not been successful but has been a method of prevention of eutrophication from time immemorial

Also , air may also be pumped into lakes to develop the oxygen content of their deeper waters and slow the release of nutrients from bottom sediments

Reference

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