In 2023, nearly 29,000 households scattered across rural Nebraska received postcards instructing them how to get their drinking water tested, free of charge, for a harmful contaminant state ...

The reclassification, announced earlier this month, follows concerns over nitrate levels in the river that the EPA says remain too high to meet federal standards. The move has reignited debates ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently added segments of five rivers near large Iowa cities including Cedar Rapids to the state's impaired waters list for nitrate — over the repeated ...

The Brookhaven development southwest of Shakopee has elevated nitrate levels in water that exceed EPA limits, according to a new state water report. The Minnesota Department of Health report ...

Corn that was drought-stressed this year will have higher toxic nitrate levels, so be very careful during the silage-making process. Corn silage with high nitrate levels poses a higher risk to ...

The lawsuit alleges the agencies have failed to adopt regulations that are adequate to protect water resources from ...

Sustainability with Tirlán discusses the River Slaney water quality project and the collaboration taking place to get results ...

City of Brantford Council received information in regards to nitrate levels in the Grand River during a Committee of the ...

The number of rivers achieving the best rating for a low presence of chemicals rose from 88% in 2015. While the amount of nitrate in the water has increased in some areas it is not at a dangerous ...

Nitrate contamination is a significant environmental and health concern, particularly in agricultural regions using nitrogen-based fertilizers and animal waste ...

coli, nitrates and phosphates Cattle drinking from watercourses and leaving droppings in the river was another cause of polluted water, as well as run-off from fertiliser spread on fields.

and high values of nitrate pollution. When these hotspots were reanalysed in 2023, 28 out of 32 hotspots (river stretches) measured with high levels of total coliform in 2022 had further ...