some experts express: boiling waters changes nitrate content of water to nitrite and increase nitrite content so people worried about this issue ,what's your opinion?
If a test shows that the nitrate level in your bore water is close to or above 50 mg/L you need to treat the water or use another water source. Common methods such as boiling and disinfection do not remove nitrates.Apr 1, 2022
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Dear Payman,
This is an interesting question. In this reference (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9311093) higher concentrations of nitrate were reportedly boiled for up to 24 hours with no change in nitrite content, so this would seem to indicate that boiling of water with < 10 mg/L nitrate-N will not cause a violation of a nitrite-N standard of 1 mg/L. However, if too much water is boiled off, both nitrate and nitrite concentrations will of course increase. Best wishes,
- Peter
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