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 ...

Safe and affordable drinking water remains elusive in the San Joaquin Valley. (photo: Department of Water Resources) Environmental justice advocates are growing frustrated with California’s pace in ...

Morrow County is in the midst of a water emergency after extremely high levels of nitrates were found in well water used by ...

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 ...

A former Wisconsin state toxicologist who was involved in creating the state’s nitrate standards for drinking water in the 1980s alleges the science that has informed those standards for decades is ...

NOW. FIRST AT FIVE, A NEW $1.9 MILLION PROJECT IS TARGETING NITRATE POLLUTION IN BEAVER CREEK. THAT’S THE STREAM THAT FLOWS DIRECTLY INTO CENTRAL IOWA’S DRINKING WATER SUPPLY. AND THE STATE HOPES THIS ...

Central Iowa Water Works is removing nitrates and keeping levels below the EPA's threshold of 10 milligrams per liter. But what happens to those nitrates after they're removed from our water? KCCI's ...

Researchers explain how nitrate from farming and fish ponds moves through water and pollutes freshwater lakes.

Nitrate levels in the Raccoon River are the highest they have been since 2013, forcing local officials in central Iowa to enact a lawn watering ban for the first time. The stage three water shortage ...

PRATT —Nitrate pollution has forced a central Kansas town to shut off two wells that make up nearly one-quarter of its total permissible water supply. The state of Kansas will help Pratt afford the ...

Sasha Khoka is the Central Valley Bureau Chief for KQED in San Francisco, and her reportage on living with nitrates in the Central Valley earned her multiple journalism awards. She explains what ...

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 ...