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

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 ...

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 ...

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

A water company that has identified rising nitrate levels in raw untreated water is planning to improve some of its treatment sites with almost £50m of investment. Anglian Water says it is being ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...