Do agricultural and urban sources contribute similar quantities of nutrients to the Gulf?
|Back to Top| No, however, agricultural sources in the watersheds contribute more than 70 percent of the delivered nitrogen and phosphorus, versus only about 9 to 12 percent from urban sources. Such findings show the dominance of nonpoint sources outside urban areas in the Mississippi River Basin and Gulf of Mexico.
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- What does this report say about the impact of different sources of pollution, such as urban runoff or agricultural sources?
- Are the agricultural sources that contribute nutrients to the Gulf the same for nitrogen and phosphorus?
- Do agricultural and urban sources contribute similar quantities of nutrients to the Gulf?
