There’s three main elements that plants need to live and grow; nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium (the spruce, 2019). As you can guess, these are the three main components of most fertilizers. The thing is that these fertilizers eventually end up in water streams, rivers and lakes. Then, instead of feeding farmer’s fields and yards, they become a buffet for algae. The algae then grow very fast in large number of individuals. “ When the algae die, the bacteria that break them down use up dissolved oxygen in the water, depriving and sometimes suffocating other aquatic life” ( Jenny Green…