February 23, 2010--Road salt melts snow, but it contaminates groundwater and...
We toss more than 20 million tons of sodium chloride on our roadways every winter. That's about 13 times more salt than is used by the entire food processing industry. Salt lowers the freezing...
View ArticleJune 16, 2014--Human activities increase salt content in many of the nation’s...
Concentrations of dissolved solids, a measure of the salt content in water, are elevated in many of the Nations streams as a result of human activities, according to a new USGS study. Excessive...
View ArticleOctober 12, 2015--The Colorado River’s desalination plant is on its last legs...
The Paradox Valley in western Colorado got its name because the Dolores River bisects it, rather than running through it in the normal topographical fashion. The landscape is short on people, long on...
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