Nitrate Problems Are Soluble at a Cost08/09/2009 |
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| Nitrate pollution in rivers, lakes, reservoirs and underground aquifers has been a long-standing problem for many years. However, researchers from the UK, Belgium, Malta, and Poland have developed a new low cost, environmentally friendly technology, known as Nitrabar which substantially removes nitrate from groundwater. |
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The project is an EC LIFE Environment Project that demonstrates the remediation of agricultural diffuse NITRAte polluted waters through the implementation of a permeable reactive BARrier. Now that the science has been proven and the environmental and financial benefits have been calculated, the only outstanding issue is funding.
The world needs to double food production by 2050 but surface and ground water pollution from agricultural fertilizers will have to be reduced at the same time. Consequently, there is an urgent requirement for solutions that will permit the use of fertilisers to maximise yields whilst protecting the environment from pollution.
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