Home reverse osmosis systems are becoming more popular in central Iowa as nitrates affect public drinking water supplies.

Iowa water bans are a sign of the state’s intensifying struggle with high nitrate levels in streams and rivers that supply ...

Nitrate pollution is likely to force more water-use restrictions. Iowa’s problems are uniquely severe: It has plenty of water ...

Amid central Iowa’s lawn-watering ban, Gov. Reynolds said regulating the agriculture industry is not the answer to Iowa’s ...

Central Iowa Water Works has enforced a lawn watering ban for a month due to fluctuating nitrate levels in local rivers, ...

For nearly a month, hundreds of thousands of Iowans have not been allowed to water their lawns—even though there's no drought ...

Asked about protesters who attended a Thursday groundbreaking in Des Moines, demanding action on agricultural pollution and ...

A new $1.9 million project aims to reduce nitrate runoff into Beaver Creek, a stream that flows directly into Central Iowa’s ...

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds this week said regulation is not the answer to address high nitrate levels in Iowa's drinking water, ...

The North Raccoon River routinely has elevated levels of nitrate contamination.   Buy Photo Thanks in large part to nitrate ...

A small crowd of protesters gathered outside of a Thursday event with signs decrying Iowa’s water quality, which incited the ...