Problem
Nitrates as pollutants
Nature:
Nitrates are used in chemical fertilizers. When applied to fields much of nitrates often filter through the soil to the water table where they contaminate the drinking supply. In rivers, streams, estuaries and seas nitrates encourage the proliferation of algae, which stifle other, more various plants and fish. Nitrates turn to nitrites in water and in human stomach and is suspected of causing stomach cancer and other diseases.
Broader Problems:
Nitrogen as a pollutantNitrogen compounds as water pollutants Narrower Problems:
Nitrate contamination of water Related Problems:
Acidic precipitationPhosphates as pollutants Aggravates:
Lake pollutionNitrites as pollutantsPhotochemical oxidant formationNitrate poisoning in animalsHuman birth defectsCancer of the bladderCancer of the parathyroid glandGastric cancer Values:
Pollution Subject(s):
Fundamental Sciences → Inorganic chemical compoundsFundamental Sciences → Organic chemical compounds
Societal Problems → Pollution
Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
Problem Type:
E: Emanations of other problems Date of last update
17.04.2019 – 14:55 CEST