Eutrophication Costing the U.S. Billions

A new study shows eutrophication of freshwater systems in the U.S. is costing Americans between $2.2 and $4.4 billion dollars a year. The biggest losses occur to lakefront property values, which lose value to the degradation of water quality. Those losses total anywhere between $300 million and $2.8 billion dollars a year. Battling phosphorus and nitrogen loading in the watersheds will help recover some losses from eutrophication.

Read the full study, here.

November 13, 2008 6:03 AM | Category: Algae

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