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 ...

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 ...

Groups Request EPA use Safe Drinking Water Emergency Powers to Protect MN, WI, IA, WA, and OR Communities from Further Harm Today, a group of environmental and community organizations from across the ...

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

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 ...

Ecology is working with other state and local government agencies to reduce nitrate contamination so everyone in the Lower ...

Nitrate contamination is endangering Wisconsin’s freshwater drinking supply, creating a public health crisis according to the ...

A new report from the Alliance for the Great Lakes finds agricultural runoff is driving nitrate contamination in Wisconsin’s ...

Josh Mandelbaum, Senior Attorney with ELPC, said: “Iowans have waited on adoption of protective standards for years. It’s ...

Local officials warned more than half a million Iowans in the state's capital city and suburbs on Thursday that near-record levels of pollutants in its rivers could make drinking water dangerous if ...

KCCI EIGHT NEWS, IOWA’S NEWS LEADER. YOU HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT THE QUALITY OF THE WATER THAT COMES OUT OF YOUR TAP. AND WE ARE WORKING TO ANSWER ALL OF THEM. SO HERE’S ONE THAT WE’VE BEEN ASKED A LOT.