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Reasons and Control of Eutrophication in New Reservoirs

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Eutrophication: causes, consequences and control

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According to the survey, most of the reservoirs and lakes in China are eutrophicated, which have affected urban water supply security and sustainable development of local social economy. Due to the rapid social and economic development and growing population, a large number of pollutants flow into the lakes and reservoirs, leading to nutrients enrichment in different levels. New reservoirs cover generally large submerged areas of jungles, villages, farmlands, and so on. With a lot of pollutants dissolved from the submerged soil and the continuously importing from the basin, a new reservoir is easily eutrophicated because of the low biodiversity and self-purification capacity before the formation of a mature aquatic ecosystem. Meanwhile, it is also significant to establish a network of environmental monitoring in main inflow rivers and reservoirs, so as to observe the variation of water quality in time and provide accurate information for the local authority to formulate practical management policy or control strategies.

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  1. College of Hydrology and Water Resources, Hohai University, Nanjing, 210098, China

    Cuiling Jiang, Liqin Zhu, Xiaoqin Hu, Junyu Cheng & Minghua Xie

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    Abid A. Ansari

  2. Engineering & Biotechnology, Plant Molecular Biology Grop, International Centre for Genetic, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi, 110 067, India

    Sarvajeet Singh Gill

  3. , Department of Natural Resources Conserva, University of Massachusetts, 326 Holdsworth Hall, Amherst, 01003-9285, USA

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Jiang, C., Zhu, L., Hu, X., Cheng, J., Xie, M. (2010). Reasons and Control of Eutrophication in New Reservoirs. In: Ansari, A., Singh Gill, S., Lanza, G., Rast, W. (eds) Eutrophication: causes, consequences and control. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9625-8_16

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