saltwater
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Space
NASA-DOD Study: Saltwater to Widely Taint Coastal Groundwater by 2100
Intrusion of saltwater into coastal groundwater can make water there unusable, damage ecosystems, and corrode infrastructure. Seawater will infiltrate underground…
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Entrepreneurship
Drought is pushing saltwater up the Delaware River—Philadelphia’s drinking water source
The Delaware River provides drinking water for some 14 million people, including most of Philadelphia but also New Jersey and…
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Entrepreneurship
What to know about saltwater flooding and the risk of lithium-ion battery fires
Saltwater is a particular problem for lithium-ion batteries because salt dissolved in water is conductive, which means that electric current…
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Space
Mysterious features on asteroid Vesta may be explained by saltwater
On a large asteroid named Vesta, mysteriously curved gullies and fan-shaped deposits may have formed from short-lived flows of saltwater,…
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