The greatest threat to water quality worldwide is nutrient pollution. This book offers real-world solutions for mitigating this catastrophe in the making.

The greatest threat to water quality worldwide is nutrient pollution. Eutrophication by nutrients in sewage, fertilizers and detergents is feeding massive algal blooms in rivers, lakes and estuaries, choking out aquatic life and outpacing heavy metals, oil spills and other toxins in the devastation wrought upon the world's fresh waters.Renowned water scientists, David W. Schindler and John R. Vallentyne, share their combined 80 years of experience to explain its history and science, and offer real-world solutions for mitigating this catastrophe in the making. A long-awaited replacement for Vallentyne's classic 1974 first edition, Schindler's fully revised edition has been expanded to cover estuaries as well as lakes. It is international in scope, drawing on examples including the North American Great Lakes, the Baltic Sea region in northern Europe and lakes in Asia and Africa. The book represents the most accessible and comprehensive overview of the key issues and will be invaluable for a broad range of students and professionals.

Preface
The Algal Bowl
Lakes and Humans
Lakes are Made of Water
How Lakes Breathe
Phosphorus, the Morning Star
The Environmental Physician
Detergents and Lakes
The Year of NTA
Understanding Eutrophication from Experiments in Small Lakes
Changes in the Eutrophication Problem Since the mid-20th Century
Using the Fossil Record to Interpret Past Eutrophication
Recovery from Eutrophication
Eutrophication of Estuaries
Signs or Solutions?
Bibliography, Index.