It was a big step in the right direction. But itâs important to remember the equally vital contributions that can be made by private citizensâwhich is to say, by you. âChange only happens when individuals take action,â Aliya Haq, deputy director of NRDCâs Clean Power Plan initiative, says.
Cultural eutrophication is the process that speeds up natural eutrophication because of human activity. Due to clearing of land and building of towns and cities, land runoff is accelerated and more nutrients such as phosphates and nitrate are supplied to lakes and rivers, and then to coastal estuaries and bays.
Eutrophication, in the strict sense is a phenomenon that has been occurring for. millennia. It is the process of addition of nutrients to water bodies, including lakes, rivers, estuaries and oceans resulting in changes to the primary production and species. composition of the community. This natural eutrophication process occurs over. extended periods of time that are typically geological time scales.