Tag: nitrates
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Glacier depth affects plankton blooms off Greenland:
Study shows complex connection between meltwater discharge and nutrient input — ScienceDaily Summary: The unusual timing of highly-productive summer plankton blooms off Greenland indicates a connection between increasing amounts of meltwater and nutrients in these coastal waters. Researchers now show that this connection exists, but is much more complex than widely supposed. Whether increasing meltwater…
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Algae from wastewater solves two problems: biofuel and cleanup
In one of the first studies to examine the potential for using municipal wastewater as a feedstock for algae-based biofuels, Rice University scientists found they could easily grow high-value strains of oil-rich algae while simultaneously removing more than 90 percent of nitrates and more than 50 percent of phosphorus from wastewater. The findings, which are…
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Why a tax on drinking water is wrong
A statewide tax on drinking water is being considered. (Getty Images) The vast majority of Californians are fortunate enough to take access to clean drinking water for granted. However, the fact that some Californians in small, rural communities do not have this access is a travesty in this modern day and age. It can and…
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Safe drinking water must be a shared value in Minnesota
Proposed rules on agriculture fertilizer would help protect groundwater. It’s hard to persuade residents of a state whose very name bespeaks an abundance of water to worry about water quality. Maybe that’s why three successive governors did little to implement a 1989 statute empowering state agencies to “promote best practices … to the extent practicable”…
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Iowa’s water quality problems: What you need to know
In early 2018 the Iowa Legislature took a step in addressing Iowa’s water quality with a plan to reduce nitrogen and phosphorous levels by 45 percent. Kelsey Kremer/The Register It seems like Iowans have feuded over water quality since farmers began draining the swampy prairie more than a century ago to turn it into some…
