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Pressure mounts to fix nitrate contamination in drinking water

08/21/24 6:10 AM By Brad Hooker
KEYWORDS balancing critically overdrafted aquifers by 2040 dairies lead to pollution in socially disadvantaged communities implementing the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act salinity in surface water deliveries toxic water contamination in domestic wells
Nitrates in fertilizer and from dairy manure—some decades old—have led to groundwater contamination in drinking water wells in the San Joaquin Valley, and environmental justice advocates are growing frustrated.
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Brad Hooker
Associate Editor, Agri-Pulse West

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