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 ...

Central Iowa Water Works is removing nitrates and keeping levels below the EPA's threshold of 10 milligrams per liter. But what happens to those nitrates after they're removed from our water? KCCI's ...

Nitrates seep into rural communities' water supply, incurring high costs and health risks. A new report by the Alliance for the Great Lakes explores. Wisconsin’s drinking water is facing a growing ...

The Raccoon River weaves past downtown Des Moines. One of the primary drinking water sources for the region, the river has high nitrate levels that have led to water restrictions for some 600,000 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rumors have been swirling online about whether the drinking water in the Des Moines metro area is safe after Central Iowa Water Works implemented a lawn watering ban in response to high nitrate levels ...

A former Wisconsin state toxicologist who was involved in creating the state’s nitrate standards for drinking water in the 1980s alleges the science that has informed those standards for decades is ...

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 ...

The kind of microbes commonly used to turn nitrate into nitrogen gas fed on organic carbons for energy, in order to process ...