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Many unincorporated and disadvantaged communities of the Central Valley are not connected to public water systems and rely on groundwater from shallow domestic wells for water. These marginalized ...

A new paper published in Environmental Science & Technology Letters warns of an emerging global threat posed by salt contamination of water supplies in tidal rivers worldwide. The paper, co-authored ...

Rock salt, or sodium chloride, is widely used to prevent ice and reduce winter driving accidents, but scientists warn that its excessive application is causing environmental damage and contaminating ...

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