If Americans have recently noticed a salty taste to their drinking water, winter weather might be to blame.

As salt washes off roads, driveways and sidewalks, it flows into the Maumee River and Lake Erie, raising salinity levels to a ...

Road salt badly damages New Jersey's water quality, ecoystems and soil quality. Brining is a much safer strategy.

Of all the challenges facing the Colorado River, there’s at least one that all stakeholders are working on collaboratively, not competitively — salinity. Since 1974, the seven Colorado River basin ...

The amount of salt in one of New York City’s key sources of drinking water has tripled over three decades and is on track to exceed allowable levels around the turn of the next century, environmental ...

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Since 1974, the Bureau of Reclamation has supported various projects to reduce salt levels in the Colorado River’s upper and lower basins. Now, a bill to increase the 50-year-old program’s funding is ...

Elevated sodium in groundwater was associated with increased blood pressure and odds of hypertension, especially among Asian ...

Surfers are used to getting mouthfuls of saltwater. Anyone who's been knocked over by a wave at the beach knows that the ocean tastes like salt. This is true whether you swallow a mouthful of seawater ...

In this study, the effect of irrigation water salinity on rooted cuttings of eight pomegranate cultivars namely ‘Malase Saveh’ (‘M-Saveh’), ‘Malase Isfahan ...