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The greatest threat to water quality worldwide is nutrient pollution. Cultural eutrophication by nutrients in sewage, fertilizers, and detergents is feeding massive algal blooms, choking out aquatic life and outpacing heavy metals, oil spills, and other toxins in the devastation wrought upon the world's fresh waters. Renowned water scientists, David W Schindler and John R Vallentyne, share their combined 80 years of experience with the eutrophication problem to explain its history and science, and offer real-world solutions for mitigating this catastrophe in the making. For those who have lost sight of Vallentyne's 1974 first edition, Schindler's fully revised and expanded edition is an unambiguous road map for change.

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Impeccable empirical science, written with vigour and precision. Among its other charms, this is an excellent textbook. But this is a cloak of many colours. The Algal Bowl is also a work of scientific poetry. - Even more compelling, though, is the book's touching show of faith in Homo sapiens and our ability to face up to the disastrous changes we have wrought on the Earth's capacity to support life. - It is a prescription for hope. -- Alanna Mitchell, Literary Review of Canada, Sept 2008

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David W. Schindler (1940-2021), O.C., F.R.S.C., F.R.S., was Killam Memorial Chair and Professor of Ecology at the University of Alberta, Edmonton. He received numerous awards for his work, including the first Stockholm Water Prize (1991), the Volvo Environment Prize (1998), the NSERC Gerhard Herzberg Gold Medal for Science and Engineering (2001), and the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement (2006). John R. Vallentyne (1926-2007) began the eutrophication dialogue in the 1970s. He helped establish new centres of freshwater research in Manitoba and Ontario, championed the investigation of pollution in the Lower Great Lakes, and was Senior Scientist with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans. He received the Rachel Carson Prize for his work.

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