The nation's rivers and streams remain polluted with nutrients that contaminate drinking water and fuel a gigantic dead zone for aquatic life in the Gulf of Mexico, according to an Environmental Protection Agency assessment. The assessment found that more than half of the basin's miles of rivers and streams were in poor condition for nitrogen and phosphorus from fertilizer that drains into waterways, and it is a problem expected to get harder to control as climate change produces more intense storms that pick up commercial fertilizers and carry them into nearby rivers. The assessment also found that phosphorus levels dipped slightly while nitrogen levels remained almost exactly the same, and that about half of all river miles were rated as having poor biological health for bottom dwelling species such as snails, worms, beetles, etc.
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