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Iowa’s rivers and streams continue to be plagued by nitrates, and the problem is not getting better after years of legislative efforts that tip-toe around the problem. In central Iowa, drinking water ...

For several weeks, nitrate levels in the rivers have been so high, treatment plants across central Iowa are having a hard time treating it including Des Moines Water Works. The agency treats an ...

Central Iowa’s regional water authority has issued an immediate ban on watering lawns as river nitrate levels threaten to ...

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