The treatment of eutrophic water research programme meanwhile, seeks to define best practices to treat algae-rich water to maintain high quality treated drinking water while at the same time keeping costs down.
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The increased solubility of at lower temperatures ( see Water polluted with plant nutrients such as nitrates or phosphates may stimulate growth of algae by a process called eutrophication and the decay of these organisms and other biomaterials may reduce the content in eutrophic water bodies.