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During the 1960's, inland bodies of water in North America and Europe experienced a dangerous transformation. Nutrients were dumped into lakes, causing chain reactions which severely impacted on lake environments. The excessive increase of nutrients into inland waters through human activity, known as cultural eutrophication, emerged as a dominant problem. Massive algae blooms drifted in overnourished lakes, depleting oxygen, damaging fish stocks, and transforming the water's ecosystem.
In Lake Erie Rehabilitated, historian William McGucken presents a comprehensive account of the most notorious international incident of cultural eutrophication--Lake Erie. With the assistance of the International Joint Commission, Canada and the United States diagnosed phosphorus as the primary cause of the problem and, in a unique cooperative effort, reduced input to the lake from municipal and industrial wastewater plants and agricultural lands. Public pressure and government regulation encouraged the reluctant detergent industry to produce alternative detergents and, finally, reduced the input of phosphorous to targeted levels.
Lake Erie is now rehabilitated, but its history over the last three decades demonstrates the importance of maintaining and environmental balance. Meticulously researched and documented, this book will appeal to environmentalists, historians, and readers who seek to understand the Great Lakes ecosystem, environmental issues, and environmental regulation. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
About the Author
William McGucken is chair of the Department of History at the University of Southern Indiana. Born in Northern Ireland, he received his B.Sc., B.Sc. Hons., and M.A. degrees at the Queen's University of Belfast and his Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania. He has published three books, most recently Scientists, Society and State: The Social Relations of Science Movement in Great Britain, 1937-1947 and Biodegradable:Detergents and the Environment. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
During the 1960's, inland bodies of water in North America and Europe experienced a dangerous transformation. Nutrients were dumped into lakes, causing chain reactions which severely impacted on lake environments. The excessive increase of nutrients into inland waters through human activity, known as cultural eutrophication, emerged as a dominant problem. Massive algae blooms drifted in overnourished lakes, depleting oxygen, damaging fish stocks, and transforming the water's ecosystem.
In Lake Erie Rehabilitated, historian William McGucken presents a comprehensive account of the most notorious international incident of cultural eutrophication--Lake Erie. With the assistance of the International Joint Commission, Canada and the United States diagnosed phosphorus as the primary cause of the problem and, in a unique cooperative effort, reduced input to the lake from municipal and industrial wastewater plants and agricultural lands. Public pressure and government regulation encouraged the reluctant detergent industry to produce alternative detergents and, finally, reduced the input of phosphorous to targeted levels.
Lake Erie is now rehabilitated, but its history over the last three decades demonstrates the importance of maintaining and environmental balance. Meticulously researched and documented, this book will appeal to environmentalists, historians, and readers who seek to understand the Great Lakes ecosystem, environmental issues, and environmental regulation. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
About the Author
William McGucken is chair of the Department of History at the University of Southern Indiana. Born in Northern Ireland, he received his B.Sc., B.Sc. Hons., and M.A. degrees at the Queen's University of Belfast and his Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania. He has published three books, most recently Scientists, Society and State: The Social Relations of Science Movement in Great Britain, 1937-1947 and Biodegradable:Detergents and the Environment. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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