Last week, Central Iowa Water Works placed a ban on commercial and residential lawn watering to avoid violating federal ...

Central Iowa lawn-watering ban is cutting demand, officials say. But residents should prepare to conserve water for weeks, ...

Nitrate levels are still at dangerous levels in Des Moines’ rivers. To keep the area’s sources for drinking water from exceeding EPA standards, Central Iowa Water Works is continuing its ban on lawn ...

A ban on watering lawns has been issued in the Des Moines metro area for the first time to avoid a potential water crisis due to high concentrations of nitrates.

Nitrate levels in the water supply for Reno County Rural Water District 101 remain above safe limits, officials confirmed ...

Central Iowa's growing data centers use a lot of water to cool their equipment. Are they contributing to the current water ...

Local officials warned more than half a million Iowans in the state's capital city and suburbs on Thursday that near-record ...

Over 80 children were placed in protective custody after the Louisa County Sheriff’s Office and other agencies conducted a child safety operation and served search warrants on two Iowa locations where ...

Water in Iowa has a lot of nitrate because of all the farmland across the state. The compound is a byproduct that comes out ...

Law enforcement officials are expected to announce the arrest of a defendant allegedly linked to the primary suspect in the ...

Testing on June 7 by utility Aqua, which serves Kankakee and Will counties, found elevated nitrate levels in water from the ...

But the officials declined to explain what they believe has caused the surge in nitrate levels, which has historically been tied to runoff from farmland draining into Des Moines-area rivers.