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1. Department of Civil Engineering, Cairo University, Giza 12613, Egypt
2. Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering, the University of Texas at Austin, TX 78712, USA
3. National Organization for Potable Water and Sanitary Drainage (NOPWASD), Giza 12649, Egypt

ABSTRACT

Environmental concerns associated with nutrient-oriented eutrophication phenomenon have become a serious issue and a major cause of water quality deficiency nowadays. This necessitated eutrophication to occupy a front seat in research accompanied with climate change. Climate change has revealed to be a key player and a main contributor in the occurrence of such phenomenon. This paper discusses the ever-growing concern about eutrophication as a cause of climate change. Climate change affects storms intensity, changing the precipitation regime and increasing temperature. These effects increase the nutrient loading diffusion and cause excessive nutrients accompanied with storm water runoff, domestic wastewaters, and agricultural discharges to pour into water bodies. Eutrophication conversely contributes in the global warming by releasing greenhouse gases from deoxygenated waters and sediments. Some control and mitigation measures are needed to fight climate change and achieve desired water quality goals. These measures include mitigation of climate change causes, enhancement of natural ecohydrological processes, application of proper integrated water resource management and participation of communities and governments.

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Eutrophication, climate change, aquatic ecosystems, ecohydrological approach.

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