Opinion: Rising sea levels and algae blooms threaten our coast. Nature can help
… So what can the Bay Area do to protect it coastlines from rising sea levels and our waters from future algal blooms that is actually cost-effective? Nature may have the answer. Over the past decade, Bay Area water agencies and researchers have been working to come up with a low-cost, nature-based solution to address nutrient management and sea level rise. Their answer: horizontal levees.
-Written by Sasha Harris-Lovett, lead environmental scientist at the San Francisco Estuary Partnership; Jonathan Uhler and Anthony DeSalvo, Ph.D. students in Environmental Engineering at UC Berkeley; and David Sedlak, a professor of environmental engineering at UC Berkeley.
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