Nutrient control actions for improving water quality in the Mississippi River basin and northern Gulf of Mexico / Committee on the Mississippi River and the Clean Water Act: Scientific, Modeling, and Technical Aspects of Nutrient Pollutant Load Allocation and Implementation, Water Science and Technology Board, Division on Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council of the National Academies.

"A large area of coastal waters in the northern Gulf of Mexico experiences seasonal conditions of low levels of dissolved oxygen, a condition known as hypoxia. Excess discharge of nutrients into the Gulf of Mexico from the Mississippi and Atchafalaya rivers causes nutrient overenrichment in the...

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