High nitrate levels in drinking water can lead to health risks, underscoring the need for improved monitoring tools.

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

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

High nitrate levels in drinking water can increase health risks, especially for young children. It may also increase the risk of colorectal cancer. Need for real-time soil nitrate monitoring ...

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

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

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 ...

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

UC Davis researchers insert a device that continuously collects water samples underground, providing real-time data on nitrate contaminant movement. (Isaya Kisekka / UC Davis) Extreme weather spurred ...

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 ...