Modelling of Phosphorus and Nitrogen Delivery in a Strategic River Basin

Human activities like agriculture, industrialization, urbanization, and population growth have increased nutrient inputs in aquatic ecosystems, disrupting natural nutrient cycles. This study helps to understand how nutrients move in a river basin using the InVEST NDR module in order to model and map total nitrogen and total phosphorus delivery from different land use and land cover (LULC). Identifying non-point pollution sources and evaluating nutrient retention by vegetation allow us to understand how LULC can affect the quality of water in the Suquía River basin by affecting the amount of nutrients that get carried away in the water.