Engineers have found a catalyst the cleans toxic nitrates from drinking water by converting them into air and water. Engineers at Rice University's Nanotechnology Enabled Water Treatment (NEWT) Center ...

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As Central Iowa Water Works imposes a lawn-watering ban to help ensure member utilities have the capacity to treat high levels of nitrates in their source water, some central Iowans are eyeing the ...

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(Nanowerk News) Engineers at Rice University’s Nanotechnology Enabled Water Treatment (NEWT) Center have found a catalyst that cleans toxic nitrates from drinking water by converting them into air and ...

Nitrates have to be removed before the treated water can be discharged into the environment.

Cover crops do more than remove nitrates. Cover crops that farmers plant in the fall to capture nitrogen also reduce soil erosion by holding soil with live roots that increase the fungi and bacteria ...

DES MOINES — Most of the water-treatment departments that remove nitrates from Iowans’ drinking water dump the chemical back into the water supply, so other cities downstream have to remove it again.

A water company that has identified rising nitrate levels in raw untreated water is planning to improve some of its treatment sites with almost £50m of investment. Anglian Water says it is being ...

The drinking water in Pretty Prairie, Kan., population 672, is unsafe to drink due to excessive levels of nitrate from fertilizer runoff. Pregnant and nursing mothers receive free bottled water. This ...

Engineers at Rice University's Nanotechnology Enabled Water Treatment (NEWT) Center have found a catalyst that cleans toxic nitrates from drinking water by converting them into air and water. The ...