Due to high nitrate levels in the Raccoon and Des Moines Rivers, Central Iowa Water Works has had to activate its nitrate ...

In spring and summer 2025, the nitrate removal facility ran in part of fully for 112 days. A wet July drove nitrates out of ...

As Central Iowa Water Works imposes a lawn-watering ban to help ensure member utilities have the capacity to treat high levels of nitrates in their source water, some central Iowans are eyeing the ...

Recent studies have found elevated levels of nitrate in drinking water correlates with health issues like cancer and thyroid disease — even below what current federal standards deem as safe. But ...

EIGHT NEWS. IOWA’S NEWS LEADER. WELL, STAYING ON THE TOPIC OF WATER, THE NITRATE LEVELS IN THE DES MOINES AND RACCOON RIVERS ARE DROPPING. GREAT NEWS. YESTERDAY, THE LEVEL IN THE DES MOINES RIVER WAS ...

City officials in Fairview have sent out a warning that high levels of nitrate were detected in the city's water system. Officials said parents should not give tap water to children six months old or ...

Extreme dry weather has left livestock forage short in Colorado and increased the nitrate levels in hay and stubble fields stressed. As hay prices continue to rise and native range is depleted, ...

THE DES MOINES RIVER IS THE SOURCE FOR DRINKING WATER FOR 25,000 PEOPLE HERE IN OTTUMWA. BUT MAKING THAT WATER SAFE IS BECOMING A BIGGER AND BIGGER CHALLENGE. WE’RE NOT QUITE NEAR RECORD LEVELS YET, ...

Martin Yanez and his sister Rosalinda Guillen live in the Yakima Valley near a large dairy. Their well water has high levels of nitrates, which can cause health problems. Esmy Jimenez/NWPB More people ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (Flatwater Free Press) - Covered swine barns dot the landscape near Platte Center, where tens of thousands of hogs are raised and fed. Many of these barns are owned by a local boy who ...

Bhopal: As Indore, continues to grapple with fallout of 18 deaths linked to the mix-up of sewage in groundwater, a bigger ...

Central Iowa Water Works says they have activated their nitrate removal facility due to heightened nitrate levels in the Des ...