Des Moines Water Works employee Bill Blubaugh collects a water sample from the Raccoon River in June 2021 in Des Moines. (Charlie Neibergall/Associated Press) Buy Photo The Gazette offers audio ...

A Dana Point home featuring aquatic elements in its three-level rotunda design is on the market in Monarch Beach’s guard-gated Ritz Cove neighborhood. The asking price is $22.55 million. Built in 2009 ...

Hundreds of millions of Americans, including people in Eugene and Springfield, are drinking chemicals tied to cancer, according to researchers at the Environmental Working Group. EWG surveyed drinking ...

A new report finds nitrate contamination in Wisconsin could cost communities millions and increase health care bills. Nitrate, primarily from excess farm fertilizer and manure, is Wisconsin's most ...

The US Air Force plane that just crash-landed in a field was a new special ops attack aircraft converted from a crop duster A Massive New Study Says This Is What Happens to People Who Drink Black ...

A judge ordered Minnesota state agencies overseeing nitrate and water pollution issues to review the effectiveness of their rules as part of a lawsuit by environmental advocates. Ramsey County ...

Editor's note, June 5, 2018: The government rejected the petition in the summer of 2016, in part because the cyanide test it called for had not been independently validated. A study published in May ...

DUBUQUE, Iowa (KCRG) - Nitrate levels in some of the state’s waterways are among the highest in the nation, as a recent study finds Iowa’s agriculture industry accounts for 80% of the nitrogen in ...

Reverse osmosis systems remove nitrates and other contaminants from water by forcing it through a membrane. Home reverse osmosis systems are increasing in sales due to high nitrate levels in central ...

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 ...

For the first time in several weeks, the nitrate levels in two drinking water sources in central Iowa have dipped below the EPA's violation standard. That's 10 mg per liter. These are the numbers over ...