Life-giving Nutrient Changed into a Deadly Pollutant. How to Change It Back?
Published on by Naizam (Nai) Jaffer, Municipal Operations Manager (Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Roads, & Parks) in Academic

Attached link
http://ensia.com/features/weve-changed-a-life-giving-nutrient-into-a-deadly-pollutant-how-can-we-change-it-back/Media
Taxonomy
- Fertilizers
- Environment
- Crop Farming
- Environment
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Another Blog article on the solution to this problem
https://wordpress.com/post/techairmartblog.wordpress.com/32 -
Please go though My Blog this will give you the answer to the problem highlighted by you
https://techairmartblog.wordpress.com/2016/03/14/wonder-nutrient-which-can-rejuvenate-lakes-naturally/ -
"What happens on a farm field can show up as algae many miles downstream. "
Why many miles downstream, why not on a fish pond on the farm field where the nutrients, N and P, originated.
If all farmers set up fish ponds on their farms, on about 1% of the area, they can use the nutrients in the fertilizer runoff to grow Diatom Algae and fish and thus clean up the water that flows out of their fields.
Farmers can earn from the fertilizer runoff and the water that flows out would be clean.