id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt news-002382 Notre Dame study sheds light on the role streams and rivers play in nitrogen removal | News | Notre Dame News | University of Notre Dame .html text/html 653 22 46 The researchers tracked the fate of that nitrate and found that it was temporarily removed from stream water via biological demand from aquatic organisms such as algae, fungi and bacteria. The team notes in its Nature paper that the entire stream network was important in removing nitrogen pollution from stream water, but that streams and rivers are most effective in removing nitrate if they are not overloaded by nitrogen from fertilizers and waste from human activities. cache/news-002382.html txt/news-002382.txt