Local officials are warning more than half a million Iowans in the state's capital city and suburbs that near-record level of ...

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Central Iowa Water Works shared its plan to build new facilities and expand capacity at current facilities during a Tuesday ...

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

As nitrate levels in Central Iowa’s drinking water sources remain at near-historic highs, local companies that offer home ...

By Gabriella Sotelo for Sentient. Broadcast version by Mark Moran for Iowa News Service reporting for the Sentient-Public ...

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 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 ...

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

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

Central Iowa’s regional water authority has issued an immediate ban on watering lawns as river nitrate levels threaten to ...