nitrate

The simple river-cleaning tactics that big farms ignore

Ione Cleverley wasn’t eager to break up with her tenant, who had been farming 88 acres of her central Iowa…

8 years ago

Simple River-Cleaning Tactics That Big Farms Ignore

Iowa is the largest corn producer in the U.S.—and the second largest producer of nitrate pollution in the Mississippi River…

8 years ago

Report Spotlights Nitrate Contamination in Drinking Water Across the USA

Photo: iStock/Charlie Bishop Scientists have known for decades that drinking water contaminated by fertilizer nitrates can pose a threat to…

8 years ago

USDA: study finds no-till farming alone not sufficient to prevent water pollution from nitrate

photo: A no-till field. INDIANAPOLIS - A new IUPUI study funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture answers a long-debated…

9 years ago

Millions consumed potentially unsafe drinking water in the past 10 years

The American Society of Civil Engineers gave the U.S. a ā€œDā€ grade for the quality of its drinking water systems…

9 years ago