The Algal Bowl: Overfertilization of the World's Freshwaters and Estuaries

By David W. Schindler and John R. Vallentyne

The greatest threat to water quality worldwide is nutrient pollution. Cultural eutrophication by nutrients in sewage, fertilizers, and detergents is feeding massive algal blooms, choking out aquatic life and outpacing heavy metals, oil spills, and other toxins in the devastation wrought upon the world's fresh waters. Renowned water scientists, David W. Schindler and John R. Vallentyne, share their combined 80 years of experience with the eutrophication problem to explain its history and science, and offer real-world solutions for mitigating this catastrophe in the making. For those who have lost sight of Vallentyne's 1974 first edition, Schindler's fully revised and expanded edition is an unambiguous road map for change.

• Language: English
• Publisher: The University of Alberta Press
• Release date: Sep 8, 2008
• ISBN: 9781772126341

David W. Schindler

David W. Schindler (1940-2021), O.C., F.R.S.C., F.R.S., was Killam Memorial Chair and Professor of Ecology at the University of Alberta, Edmonton. He received numerous awards for his work, including the first Stockholm Water Prize (1991), the Volvo Environment Prize (1998), the NSERC Gerhard Herzberg Gold Medal for Science and Engineering (2001), and the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement (2006).

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