nitrate

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…

7 years ago

Easy Fix: How to Stop Poisoning Fish in the Gulf of Mexico

Saturated buffer along unnamed tributary to the Skunk River, Iowa. Photo by Kent Heikens USDA, Agricultural Research Service. Fertilizer used…

7 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…

7 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…

7 years ago

Lawsuit Dismissal Spells Bad News for Iowa Water Quality

Central Iowans got bad news about the quality of their drinking water on Friday when a federal judge dismissed a…

7 years ago