The Gateway
The Gateway
St. Louis Public Radio
October 17 - Nutrient runoff
7 minutes Posted Oct 17, 2019 at 2:25 am.
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Unlike some Mississippi River-adjacent states that have set limits on nutrient pollution, Missouri has addressed nutrient pollution by providing funds for farmers to use conservation practices that reduce nutrients from the waterways. But environmentalists say that the state needs to vastly improve how it monitors nutrients that enter waterways and set limits in order to make a substantial progress on water quality in Missouri and reducing the dead zone in the Gulf