In the News: WERI research advises lawmakers on nitrates in water wells

Nitrate concentrations have risen over the past 40 years in nearly 60% of 146 water wells within the Northern Guam Lens Aquifer, and are continuing to rise in at least 44% of wells, according to a scientific advisory paper from the Water and Environmental Research Institute of the Western Pacific, or WERI, at the University of Guam.