Algal blooms are endangering human health, the environment, and economies across the United States. Rising temperatures and nutrient runoffs from lawns, farms and roads are having a negative effect on freshwater and marine environments, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. All of these factors are causing harmful algal blooms to occur more often, in more water bodies and to be more intense.
While essential for plant growth, high levels of nutrients facilitate nearly uncontrollable algal growth when coupled with warm temperatures and sunlight. If we follow the nutrients back to the source, we very often find that they originate from industrial
