one segment on the Raccoon River and one segment on the South Skunk River as exceeding the nitrate and nitrate plus nitrite water quality standards associated with the drinking water use. The letter ...

But it was lower than the maximum concentration allowed by the EPA for drinking water, a limit meant to prevent high human ...

An international team of scientists using observations from NASA-German satellites found evidence that Earth’s total amount ...

Michigan and Florida require septic waste to be taken to municipal waste treatment systems. Wisconsin lawmakers need to enact ...

Jeff Poteet and Justin Martin have the answers about Marco Island water: nutrients, dredging, lead. They recently spoke to ...

Impaired waters have an identified pollutant that exceeds water quality standards and require a water improvement plan, known ...

Water, a molecule essential for life, has unusual properties—known as anomalies—that define its behavior. However, there are ...

Extreme weather spurred by climate change, including droughts and heavy rains, may increase the risk of nitrates from ...

EPA says parts of Des Moines, Raccoon, Iowa, Cedar and S. Skunk rivers should be added to Iowa's impaired waters list because ...

Greenpeace says it is deeply concerned about levels of nitrate in rural school drinking water, as a shocking new report has revealed that rural children are twice as likely as the average New ...

Iowa’s major urban drinking water supplies are contaminated with levels of toxic nitrates, linked to cancer, that exceed ...

Last week’s Republican sweep of the presidency and Congress concealed a bright spot for Democrats anxious about planetary ...