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Title: Does digging affect your nitrate levels?
Post by: thedoc on 06/03/2012 15:43:47

Nitrates in water can harm newborn babies and trigger the rapid growth of algae in rivers, killing fish and choking plants. The amount of nitrates in the River Thames has trebled since the 1930s.  Sue Nelson met two researchers studying how nitrates move through the land to end up in rivers, springs and other sources of water...
Read a transcript of the interview by clicking here (http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/content/interviews/interview/1990/)

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