EUTROPHICATION

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1- Leaching and overflow

Fertilisers sprayed onto fields and leach through soil/flow into bodies of water, causing a build up of nutrients in the water

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2- Algal overgrowth

Excess nutrients cause rapid algal growth on water surface, preventing light from reaching plants underwater

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3- Plant death

Plants under algae die due to insufficient light for photosynthesis

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4- Increase in number of bacteria

Bacteria decompose dead plants, decreasing oxygen concentration, eventually killing fish due to insufficient oxygen for respiration