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 ...

Climate-driven extreme weather conditions, such as droughts and intense precipitation, may be accelerating the pace at which ...

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

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

Chronic nitrate exposure also has been linked to cancers. "There's always some level of nitrates, even in the dead of winter, ...

Several Kansas counties are seeing a dramatic increase in groundwater contamination. The region’s nitrate pollution comes ...

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

“These high nitrates threaten drinking water sources for hundreds of thousands of Iowans.” Iowa utilities treat raw water to meet federal drinking water standards and ensure it's safe for ...

The letter from the EPA said these segments need to be on the impaired water list because of their levels of nitrate and nitrite, which have a “known toxicity.”The EPA said it asked Iowa ...

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 ...