Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nitrate levels in the Raccoon River are the highest they have been since 2013, forcing local officials in central Iowa to enact a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As Central Iowa Water Works imposes a lawn-watering ban to help ensure member utilities have the capacity to treat high levels of ...

Iowa ranks 2nd in cancer rates nationally and researchers point to nitrates as one culprit. A southwest Iowa group is testing ...

Nitrate concentrations, exacerbated by a wet spring that followed years of dry conditions, reached near record highs in Iowa rivers this summer. Concentrations are typically elevated in the summer.

PRATT —Nitrate pollution has forced a central Kansas town to shut off two wells that make up nearly one-quarter of its total permissible water supply. The state of Kansas will help Pratt afford the ...

Understanding how much nitrate is present in irrigation water is important not only for farm management decisions, but also for protecting the quality of drinking water, according to research from ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, reversing a Trump-era decision, is restarting a human health assessment of nitrate and nitrite, a move that has potentially far-reaching regulatory ...

INVESTIGATION. GREW UP IN THE COUNTY. THREE ALMONDS, GRAPES AT ONE TIME, ALMONDS ALL AROUND. NOW MARTHA LLORENS LIVES IN THE SHADE OF ALMOND TREES IN THE HOUSE WHERE SHE GREW UP. IT WAS NICE BACK THEN ...

In 2023, nearly 29,000 households scattered across rural Nebraska received postcards instructing them how to get their drinking water tested, free of charge, for a harmful contaminant state ...

More than 10 years after environmental groups petitioned for a new rule, the state plans to require the Central Valley Water ...

Map of Nitrate Measures in Public Water: Iowa (1970-1988). Figure 2 reports the median nitrate level in each month-year of all reported public water measures in Iowa (1970-1988). Each blue point is a ...

Nitrate levels in the Raccoon River are the highest they have been since 2013, forcing local officials in central Iowa to enact a lawn watering ban for the first time. The stage three water shortage ...