Bacteria commonly utilize nitrate and nitrite as terminal electron acceptors for respiration in the absence of oxygen, or for incorporation in biomass. However, it was only recently described that ...
What happens to ibuprofen after it eases your throbbing headache? Like many pharmaceuticals, it can remain in an active form when our bodies flush it ...
Des Moines Water Works, which serves Iowa’s largest metro, can activate a nitrate removal facility when concentrations in the two rivers it draws from are high. It costs around $10,000 per day.
Utica, Minn., a farm town of about 200 in Winona County in southeastern Minnesota, had to dig a new, deeper well because the city's water was contaminated with nitrate. (Brian Peterson ...
Discharge from these lagoons into groundwater caused nitrate levels to skyrocket in the drinking water of small towns in the Lower Yakima Valley, where many residents get their water from private ...
Credit: Courtesy of Olmsted County Soil & Water Conservation District The architects of a water and soil program in Olmsted County say it has made a huge impact in reducing nitrate levels in ...