Residents are worried about nitrates in Iowa City's drinking water. Officials say at-home tests are inaccurate and the water ...

About 23 million U.S. households depend on private wells as their primary drinking water source. These homeowners are entirely responsible for ensuring that the water from their wells is safe for ...

Iowa State University researchers and students are using drones equipped with sensors and a lab to measure nitrate levels in water, a project they say could speed up water quality testing, reduce ...

This story was produced through a collaboration between the Daily Yonder, which covers rural America, and Modern Farmer. The Lower Yakima Valley in Washington state has been home to large-scale animal ...

Understanding how much nitrate is present in irrigation water is important not only for farm management decisions, but also for protecting the quality of drinking water, according to research from ...

LITTLE BIT, AND WE’LL CHECK BACK IN WITH YOU SOON. RIGHT NOW, MUCH OF CENTRAL IOWA IS STILL UNDER A LAWN WATERING BAN. IT’S DUE TO HIGH NITRATE LEVELS IN OUR WATER SOURCES. YOU’RE TAKING A LOOK AT ALL ...

A billboard near Avoca encourage Iowans to monitor their water for nitrate. (Photo by Taylor Thomas/Nishnabotna Water Defenders) The eyes of dead fish and the message “know what you drink” adorn a new ...

A NASA-powered nitrate-forecasting system being piloted in Des Moines could help prevent drinking-water emergencies and ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. As water quality issues dominated headlines and nitrate levels spiked in central Iowa rivers last summer ...

In May, the Reno County director of public works said construction was expected to be completed by June 14. When KSN asked ...

The eyes of dead fish and the message “know what you drink” adorn a new billboard near Avoca that urges Iowans to monitor nitrate levels in their water. The billboard is the first of several that the ...