Eutrophication, a form of water pollution, threatens freshwater ecosystems and is the cause of many frightening deteriorations within freshwater environments. An influence on eutrophication is nutrient loading. To be able to examine the relationship between nutrient loading and eutrophication, one must: understand the basis of nutrient loading, the human contribution to nutrient loading, the problems nutrient loading poses to freshwater ecosystems, and the process of nutrient loading management. By knowing these main topics, one can better assess the negative impact nutrient loading has on eutrophication. Nutrient loading is the given number of nutrients entering an ecosystem at a certain point in time. A defining detector of nutrient loading
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The Environmental Protection Agency have developed Loading Function Models, which are responsible for providing estimates of pollutant loads within water ecosystems (EPA, 2008). These models are widely used and are popular tools for measuring water ecosystems experiencing nutrient loading (EPA, 2008). Through using Loading Function Models, scientists are more able to keep track of nutrient and pollutant loads within freshwater environments. Another management tactic of nutrient loading is the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement of 1972. The Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement of 1972 led to: government control of point sources of pollution, the regulation of phosphorous levels within detergents, and the upgrading of sewage treatment plants (Jetoo, S., & Krantzberg, G. , 2016). Thus, by controlling and limiting point source pollutants, the government can protect freshwater ecosystems at a more efficient rate. Through understanding the process of nutrient loading, understanding the human contribution to nutrient loading, understanding the problems linked to nutrient loading, and understanding nutrient loading management, one is better able to understand the negative impact nutrient loading has on eutrophication. Increasing nutrient loading furthers the damaging effects eutrophication has on freshwater environments. By bringing more light to the topic of nutrient loading, one can better understand eutrophication and the impact it has upon universal freshwater
The Environmental Protection Agency have developed Loading Function Models, which are responsible for providing estimates of pollutant loads within water ecosystems (EPA, 2008). These models are widely used and are popular tools for measuring water ecosystems experiencing nutrient loading (EPA, 2008). Through using Loading Function Models, scientists are more able to keep track of nutrient and pollutant loads within freshwater environments. Another management tactic of nutrient loading is the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement of 1972. The Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement of 1972 led to: government control of point sources of pollution, the regulation of phosphorous levels within detergents, and the upgrading of sewage treatment plants (Jetoo, S., & Krantzberg, G. , 2016). Thus, by controlling and limiting point source pollutants, the government can protect freshwater ecosystems at a more efficient rate. Through understanding the process of nutrient loading, understanding the human contribution to nutrient loading, understanding the problems linked to nutrient loading, and understanding nutrient loading management, one is better able to understand the negative impact nutrient loading has on eutrophication. Increasing nutrient loading furthers the damaging effects eutrophication has on freshwater environments. By bringing more light to the topic of nutrient loading, one can better understand eutrophication and the impact it has upon universal freshwater