Iowa is the largest corn producer in the U.S.—and the second largest producer of nitrate pollution in the Mississippi River...
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...
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...
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...
Millions consumed potentially unsafe drinking water in the past 10 years
The American Society of Civil Engineers gave the U.S. a “D” grade for the quality of its drinking water systems...