This report from the Natural Resources Defense Council and Clean Water Network documents how animal waste from factory farms threatens human health and our nation's rivers. A wonderfully concise handbook for activists. How to calculate specific nutrient and hydraulic loading rates for effluent discharge in a wetland area. Also details the water quality positions of the largest representative of the agriculture industry, the Illinois Farm Bureau. Topics include non-point pollution of surface waters with phosphorus and nitrogen and nutrient pollution of coastal rivers, bays, and seas.
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A General Economic Critique of Water Privatization Definitions and theoretical background on water privatization. Existing aquaculture operations can be a significant source of chemical and biological pollutants and nutrient wastes. Untreated fish wastes have the potential to add to coastal pollution problems such as recent outbreaks of the toxic microbe Pfiesteria piscicida. A comprehensive assessment of the causes, effects, and damage inflicted upon the nation's estuaries from excess nutrients, including those found in animal waste. This paper is explores the debate about the future of the upper Midwest landscape.