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Reducing water pollution with microbes and wood chips

  • Written by Laura Christianson, Research Assistant Professor of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
imageHarmful algal bloom caused by nutrient pollution, Assateague island National Seashore, MDEric Vance, U.S. EPA/Flickr

Beneath fields of corn and soybeans across the U.S. Midwest lies an unseen network of underground pipes. These systems, which are known as tile drainage networks, channel excess water out of soil and carry it to lakes, streams and...

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