The anthropogenic salt cycle

SS Kaushal, GE Likens, PM Mayer… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2023 - nature.com
Increasing salt production and use is shifting the natural balances of salt ions across Earth
systems, causing interrelated effects across biophysical systems collectively known as …

Catchment concentration–discharge relationships across temporal scales: A review

SL Speir, LA Rose, JR Blaszczak… - Wiley …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Processes that drive variability in catchment solute sourcing, transformation, and transport
can be investigated using concentration–discharge (C–Q) relationships. These relationships …

The ecosystem implications of road salt as a pollutant of freshwaters

HA Dugan, SE Arnott - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Salt pollution is a threat to freshwater ecosystems. Anthropogenic salt inputs increase lake
and stream salinity, and consequently change aquatic ecosystem structure and function …

Water needs, water insecurity, and human biology

AY Rosinger - Annual Review of Anthropology, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Water links the environment, culture, and biology. An integrative approach is needed to
attain a complete picture of how water affects human biology due to its inherent …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing the effects of salinity on microbial communities and pollutant removal in urban wastewater treatment plants

AJM Salcedo, M Cañedo-Argüelles, SS Kaushal… - Journal of Water …, 2024 - Elsevier
This study assessed the impact of electrical conductivity (EC) on the microeukaryotic
community and pollutant removal efficiency in full-scale wastewater treatment plants …

Stream restoration milestones: monitoring scales determine successes and failures

SS Kaushal, ML Fork, RJ Hawley, KG Hopkins… - Urban …, 2023 - Springer
Urban stream restoration is growing globally, but there is much to learn from successes,
failures, and evaluating tradeoffs in restoration practices. Significant time and resources …

Stormwater best management practices: Experimental evaluation of chemical cocktails mobilized by freshwater salinization syndrome

JG Galella, SS Kaushal, PM Mayer… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Freshwater Salinization Syndrome (FSS) refers to the suite of physical, biological, and
chemical impacts of salt ions on the degradation of natural, engineered, and social systems …

Impacts of Deicer Salt on Water Quality Performance of Stormwater Bioretention Systems with Varied Vegetation and Hydrology

AH Brown, MC Hoffman, LE McPhillips - ACS ES&T Water, 2024 - ACS Publications
Sodium chloride (NaCl) deicers contaminate bioretention and influence effluent water
quality, the effects of which are not yet fully understood. We tested this by constructing 48 …

Five state factors control progressive stages of freshwater salinization syndrome

SS Kaushal, PM Mayer, GE Likens… - Limnology and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Factors driving freshwater salinization syndrome (FSS) influence the severity of impacts and
chances for recovery. We hypothesize that spread of FSS across ecosystems is a function of …

Freshwater salinization syndrome limits management efforts to improve water quality

CM Maas, SS Kaushal, MA Rippy, PM Mayer… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Freshwater Salinization Syndrome (FSS) refers to groups of biological, physical, and
chemical impacts which commonly occur together in response to salinization. FSS can be …