Sodium nitrate is a compound found in the body, water, and certain foods. It's also a food preservative commonly used in ...

Lined up alongside many of the homes inside the Riverview Mobile Home Estates are five-gallon jugs of water, some full, some ...

Testing ground and surface water sources can help determine if there are contaminants present that can affect animal health ...

“It’s a liquid with a high concentration of both nitrogen and sodium chloride,” Stowe said. The federal government has put limits on the acceptable amount of nitrates in drinking ...

Some words may be mispronounced. Drinking water in Cedar Rapids had one of its worst prolonged spikes of nitrate contamination this year amid a very wet spring and early summer that followed years ...