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What is eutrophication?

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It's a problem that should matter to you whether
you live near the ocean or not

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That's because it begins wherever people live,
and ends with damage to resources we all use

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and enjoy

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It all starts when nutrients 
get into lakes and oceans

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Remember, what's waste to humans can 
be food to plants and other creatures

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Nutrients feed algae, like they do other plants

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Algae grows and blocks sunlight, 
plants die without sunlight

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Eventually, the algae dies too

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Bacteria digest the dead plants 
using up remaining

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oxygen and giving off carbon dioxide

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If they can't swim away fish and other wildlife

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become unhealthy or die without oxygen

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But it doesn't have to be this way

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Protecting marine resources starts with sound
agricultural and waste management practices

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