{"id":1753,"date":"2026-07-24T19:00:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T19:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/24\/new-methods-for-removing-harmful-nitrates-from-drinking-water-identified\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T19:00:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T19:00:01","slug":"new-methods-for-removing-harmful-nitrates-from-drinking-water-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/24\/new-methods-for-removing-harmful-nitrates-from-drinking-water-identified\/","title":{"rendered":"New methods for removing harmful nitrates from drinking water identified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nitrate contamination of drinking water poses a major health concern, particularly in agricultural communities where fertilizers, livestock manure and septic systems can leach nitrates into groundwater. Many rural households rely on private water wells, which may not be routinely tested, leading some to consume contaminated water without realizing it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bkbc-attribution\">Originally published at <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-07-methods-nitrates.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">phys.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"bkbc-source\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Phys.org &#8211; latest science and technology news stories<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nitrate contamination of drinking water poses a major health concern, particularly in agricultural communities where fertilizers, livestock manure and septic systems can leach nitrates into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}