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 ...

Recent studies have found elevated levels of nitrate in drinking water correlates with health issues like cancer and thyroid disease — even below what current federal standards deem as safe. But ...

Researchers explain how nitrate from farming and fish ponds moves through water and pollutes freshwater lakes.

Dec. 13—Some Centralia area residents living in the Fords Prairie neighborhood near Centralia High School and the banks of the Chehalis River are now questioning whether it's safe to drink the water ...

Martin Yanez and his sister Rosalinda Guillen live in the Yakima Valley near a large dairy. Their well water has high levels of nitrates, which can cause health problems. Esmy Jimenez/NWPB More people ...

City officials in Fairview have sent out a warning that high levels of nitrate were detected in the city's water system. Officials said parents should not give tap water to children six months old or ...

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 ...

The city of Gilroy early Friday issued a drinking water advisory to residents after high levels of nitrate were found in a city well. The well tested for higher than acceptable levels of nitrate ...

Des Moines Water Works employee Bill Blubaugh collects a water sample from the Raccoon River in June 2021 in Des Moines. (Charlie Neibergall/Associated Press) Buy Photo The Gazette offers audio ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (Flatwater Free Press) - Covered swine barns dot the landscape near Platte Center, where tens of thousands of hogs are raised and fed. Many of these barns are owned by a local boy who ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (IOWA CAPITAL DISPATCH) - Nitrate concentrations, exacerbated by a wet spring that followed years of dry conditions, reached near record highs in Iowa rivers this summer.