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This article is included today not because it covers a topic related meaningfully to the environmental harm of algal blooms caused by nutrient pollution, nor because it concerns any significant efforts to staunch nitrogen or phosphorous-fed nutrient pollution at its sources. Instead, it serves as a good warning as to the general lack of concern among professionals involved in the golfing/golf course maintenance industries for the environmental harm caused to local watersheds by their land management practices. In fact, this article mostly serves as a product advertisement for a particular brand of copper-sulfide based algaecide, which can be applied to eutrophic ponds and lakes in order to kill apparently unsightly algal blooms. Rather than address the overuse of chemical fertilizers as the main cause for these algal blooms, they would rather spend time, energy and money adding additional toxic compounds to their local watersheds as a stopgap means of preventing eutrophic algal blooms

A followup to the previous article, concerning the toxicity and potential environmental damage caused by copper sulfate-based algaecides when applied to lakes and ponds on the grounds of golf courses

While coming a year late, this article provides news about international efforts at financing nutrient pollution mitigation as part of efforts to reduce endemic eutrophication in Chao Lake. Furthermore, it provides supplementary information about non-point sources of nutrient pollution that make up a significant portion of outsources in this heavily populated watershed.

While coming a year late, this article provides some of the first clues as to the sources of nutrient pollution currently endemic in Chao Lake, which appear to lie within deeply entrenched economic and industrial interests in the surrounding urbanized watershed.

The Indian River Lagoon on Florida's east coast has long been known as the most diverse ecosystem in North America.