As Central Iowa Water Works imposes a lawn-watering ban to help ensure member utilities have the capacity to treat high levels of nitrates in their source water, some central Iowans are eyeing the ...

Excessive use of fertilizers has fueled global food production, but it has also left behind a serious problem: nitrate pollution in soil and water. High nitrate levels threaten drinking water safety, ...

Water in Iowa has a lot of nitrate because of all the farmland across the state. The compound is a byproduct that comes out of things like fertilizer and makes its way to our water source when run off ...

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 ...

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 ...

As a fertilizer-filled state with critical water quality issues, Iowa carefully regulates how much nitrates are in drinking water and uses taxpayer money to keep it from reaching rivers and aquifers.

Agriculture is big business in Iowa, ranking No. 1 in several areas of exports and production. As farmers meet increased demand, high levels of nitrates from our state's farms are ending up in the ...

A study conducted in Nebraska reveals that agricultural nitrate can mobilize natural uranium in Midwestern aquifers, affecting drinking water ...

Nitrate contamination is endangering Wisconsin’s freshwater drinking supply, creating a public health crisis according to the Great Lakes.org. Exposure to nitrates can be extremely harmful and has ...

IOWA CITY, Iowa (KCRG) - Cities across eastern Iowa are seeing higher-than-normal levels of nitrate in the water. In Des Moines, the problem’s gotten so bad that lawn watering has been prohibited. But ...