Eva Sinha
Eva Sinha
India’s rivers in trouble due to high fertilizer load and heavy monsoons
Posted on 11 Aug, 2022 10:59 AMAgricultural intensification in India has increased nitrogen pollution, leading to water quality impairments. The fate of reactive nitrogen applied to the land is largely unknown, however. Long-term records of riverine nitrogen fluxes are nonexistent and drivers of variability remain unexamined, limiting the development of nitrogen management strategies.
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