Phosphates

Jesse Taylor, detectives notebook

 What are phosphates?
A phosphate is a inorganic chemical.[1] "Phosphates enter waterways from human and animal waste, phosphorus rich bedrock, laundry, cleaning, industrial effluents, and fertilizer runoff."[2] Eutrophication is the natural aging process of a body of water such as a bay or lake. This process results from the increase of nutrients within the body of water which, in turn, create plant growth. The plants die more quickly than they can be decomposed. This dead plant matter builds up and together with sediment entering the water, fills in the bed of the bay or lake making it more shallow. Normally this process takes thousands of years.[3]Cultural eutrophication is an unnatural speeding up of this process because of man's addition of phosphates, nitrogen, and sediment to the water. Bodies of water are being aged at a much faster rate than geological forces can create new ones.[6[[image:Don_Juan_copy.jpg caption="Don Juan tuno could very well gave phosphates to the river" link="Phosphates"]] This river is heavily affected with algal bloom. which means there are lots of phosphates in this river. Jesse Taylor, Detectives notebook. [[image:04phosphates-600.jpg caption="www.nytimes.com/.../us/04phosphates.html?fta=y"]][4] Phosphates were used in dishwashers to make spots and fims dissapear in the 70s. Phosphates were also used in laundry detergent to make clothes look brighter but, the dirty dishwater was being dumped into sewers which ran into different bodies of water causing algal growth that eventualy led to dying fish. There are a lot of other safer, phosphate free detergents for laundry or dishes that will work just as good, if not better than the ones that are harmful.[5] phosphates are one of the major pollutants in our lakes and streams high levels support oer popullation over alge.[7]

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[1] stover, sadie http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphate 19, Nov, 2008 [2]Price, Courtney http://www.water-research.net/Watershed/phosphates.htm 19, Nov, 2008 [3]Carter, Haven http://www.water-research.net/Watershed/phosphates.htm 19, Nov, 2008 [4]Schraer, Joel http://www.nytimes.com/.../us/04phosphates.htm 19, Nov, 2008 [5]Price, Courtney http://www.grist.org/advice/ask/2006/09/20/phosphates/ 20, Nov, 2008 [6]Schraer, Joel http://www.water-research.net/Watershed/phosphates.htm 20,Nov, 2008 [7] Caretr, Haven http://www.ext.colostate.edu/PTLK/1620.html 20, Nov, 2008