Excess road and sidewalk salt flows into storm drains and ultimately into area streams and rivers, affecting fish and other aquatic organisms.
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Salt and MSG are two well-known food additives. Both contain sodium, but there are plenty of differences you can use to your benefit.
Increasing awareness of the dangers ‘forever chemical’ road salts pose to our fresh water systems highlights the urgent importance of finding new approaches to de-icing our roads.
Salty water seeps into our soils and groundwater through surface runoff and storm-water pipes. The long-term storage of salt in the environment impacts aquatic life, infrastructure and drinking water.
When it snows, it pours – but why do municipalities treat the roads with salt? A chemist explains how salt affects water and ice.
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