Question

Agricultural runoff is a threat to the aquatic organisms in the water bodies. Explain ​

Answer 1

Answer:

Excessive irrigation can affect water quality by causing erosion, transporting nutrients, pesticides, and heavy metals, or decreasing the amount of water that flows naturally in streams and rivers. ... These chemicals can enter and contaminate water through direct application, runoff, and atmospheric deposition.

Explanation:

Agricultural runoff is surface water leaving cultivated fields as a result of receiving water in excess of the infiltration rate of the soil. Excess water is due primarily to precipitation, but it call conic from irrigation and snowmelt oil soils.