What We Can look Forward To
As one can speculate dead zones through out the world are getting worse. Currently the issue has not yet become mainstream enough for a public outcry. A large reason for this is due to the fact that most of the worlds population does not live on the coat lines and is not subject to the mass death of sea life that occurs on a daily basis. Sadly this diminishes the importance the dead zones effect on everyday living, in this case out of sight is truly out of mind. If this doesn't change the size of the dead zones, especially in the gulf of mexico, is predicted to increase dramatically due to the excessive flooding and run off into the Mississippi river. Also because the current weather patterns are worsening and rainfall records are rising these predictions are rather modest and most believe it will be much worse than what we could imagine. In just this last year the nitrogen runoff in may was 35 percent higher than what was estimated in the previous three decades, and in the past five years alone the size of this particular dead zone is triple of the original prediction that was set by the Gulf of Mexico/Mississippi River Watershed Nutrient Task Force.
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