You've got questions about Central Iowa's water since officials have banned commercial and residential lawn watering due to ...

Nitrates, fecal bacteria, sediment and other pollutants in the Des Moines and Raccoon rivers threaten safe drinking water for ...

Nitrate levels remain elevated in the Des Moines and Raccoon rivers, two of the drinking water sources for Central Iowa Water ...

As near-record nitrate levels strain water supply, Central Iowa Water Works asks residents to slash watering, and ...

Nitrate levels in Iowa's Raccoon River are at their highest since 2013. Lawn watering ban is trying to prevent more restrictions and keep water safe.

For what's apparently the first time since Central Iowa Water Works imposed an unprecedented lawn-watering ban June 12, ...

A ban on watering lawns has been issued in the Des Moines metro area for the first time to avoid a potential water crisis due to high concentrations of nitrates.

Ireland’s agricultural emissions and river nitrate levels dropped last year – despite a 10pc surge in fertiliser use – in what EPA officials described last week as a step forward but not enough. The ...

The Raccoon River in Des Moines is considered impaired, due to high nitrate levels, although studies show that level slightly decreasing since 1987. Altogether, Iowa has 479 impaired rivers, lakes ...

Farmers need nitrogen fertilizer to grow a good crop of corn. Unfortunately, a lot of that nitrogen often ends up in nearby streams, polluting them with nitrate levels that exceed drinking-water ...

The Mississippi River seen during a Lighthawk flight on Wednesday, April 24, 2024, in Missouri. Water from 31 states and two Canadian provinces drain into the Mississippi. Decades of data show nitrate ...

Most of the water-treatment departments that remove nitrates from Iowans’ drinking water dump the chemical back into the water supply, so other cities downstream have to remove it again.