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 ...

Reno County said Tuesday that testing of the water in Rural Water District 101 in the Yoder area shows nitrates at 12 milligrams per liter, which exceeds the Kansas and the Environmental Protection ...

Morrow County is in the midst of a water emergency after extremely high levels of nitrates were found in well water used by ...

Gov. Mark Dayton unveiled a revised measure on March 6 to reduce elevated nitrate levels in water supplies that includes restrictions on the application of farm fertilizers in the fall, his ...

The Environmental Law Initiative (ELI) asked the court to quash a regional plan rule which allowed some discharges from farming - such as nitrates and phosphorus - to be classed as permitted ...

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 ...

DODGE COUNTY, Minn. — Scott Glarner grew up around nitrates. The Dodge Center man, 61, lived his first 50 years on a family farm about a mile north of Berne, Minnesota, on Dodge County Road B — what ...

FILE - A sign is seen on a pipe in the Nitrate Removal Facility at the Des Moines Water Works treatment plant, May 16, 2013, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File) DES MOINES, Iowa ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — The City of Oakley has issued a water warning. Residents are told not to give city water to infants under six months old and not to boil the water. The warning notice says a ...

Greater daily exposure to nitrites in food and water may increase the risk for type 2 diabetes, French researchers reported. Compared with those in the lowest tertile of total nitrite exposure (mean 3 ...

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 ...

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