Converting Municipal Wastewater to Biogas

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Nutrient laden wastewater has fueled toxic algal blooms that have clogged freshwater systems worldwide, including Florida’s estuaries, the Mississippi River Basin, lakes in China, and everywhere in-between. When fertilizer-laden runoff or nutrient-rich wastewater effluent is discharged into rivers, it provides a source of food that allows these organisms to flourish and multiply. Toxic algal blooms are not only an ecological threat, they also pose a risk to human health. The photosynthetic cyanobacteria, known as blue-green algae, that make up these blooms produce toxins that are harmful to wildlife, pets and humans.

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