Name three types of water pollutants, and provide an example of each. What classes of water pollutants are most important in Minnesota, in your opinion?
Toxic chemical: Our waterways and coastal ecosystems have become polluted with toxic organic substances such as pesticides, petroleum products and synthetic chemicals.
Nutrient pollution: The Chesapeake Bay's dead zone shows how nutrients pollution causes eutrophication and hypoxia in surface waters.
Oil pollution: Oil pollution in freshwater and marine systems comes from spills of oils.
The most important water pollutant in Minnesota would be the toxic chemical. Because people use a lot of pesticides products for agriculture.
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