Gigantic salt piles, which are a characteristic site ... besides road salt that can cause sodium in drinking water, like water softener salt and even naturally occurring sodium from nearby rock ...

One of the first things my wife and I did when we moved into our farmhouse more than four decades ago was dig a well. Our house, which was built by my grandparents in the early 1960s, drew its water ...

There are other sources besides road salt that can cause sodium in drinking water, like water softener salt and even naturally occurring sodium from nearby rock formations. The data doesn't show ...

But if that salt ultimately gets washed into a nearby waterway, it can wreak havoc on our aquatic life, our infrastructure and even on our drinking water — a problem that's becoming more and more of ...