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 rivers and streams of Bristol contain too high levels of phosphates and nitrates, which is impacting on the health and ...

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 ...

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

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

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.

The plants begin to die. Excessive nutrients (nitrates) from fertilisers are flushed from the land into rivers by rainwater. Oxygen levels reach such a low point that fish and other organisms ...