I have asked this 3 times and noone answers it?

Question

What nutrients flow into the Gulf of Mexico?

How is it affecting the environment and what is being done to stop the nutrients?

Answer 1

Your questions is rather vague and is titled very well. There are millions of different things flowing into the Gulf of Mexico.

Answer 2

The calculation is so complex that I doubt if anyone knows. It would change with such frequency that constant monitoring and assessment would be required over a vast area.

Answer 3

I guess this one will be 4 times............

Answer 4

The major source of nutrient inflow to the Gulf of Mexico is the Mississippi river.  The nutrients are from agricultural run-off, that is fertilizers that are carried off of fields by rainwater.  Fertilizers work just as well in the ocean as they do on land and when the water from the Mississippi river gets to the gulf it produces an algal bloom.  Because the algal bloom occurs very quickly there isn't enough zoo-plankton to eat it.  As the algae dies and settles to the bottom it is broken down by bacteria, the bacteria deplete the oxygen in the water an produce a dead zone where there is essentially no life.