Tuesday, July 25, 2017
Canada's current wetland protection efforts have overlooked how the environment naturally protects fresh-water resources from agricultural
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In a recent study, Nandita Basu, a civil and environmental engineering professor, and Fred Cheng, a doctoral candidate in civil and environmental engineering at Waterloo, discovered small wetlands have a more significant role to play than larger ones in preventing excess nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus from fertilizer from reaching waterbodies such as the Great Lakes. [Full story]