Recent rainfall may be helping lawns turn green across Iowa, but water experts say the wet weather has also worsened nitrate ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (Nebraska Examiner) - A new state program, approved in 2022 to help reduce nitrate pollution in drinking water, is struggling to get started, more than a year after it became law.

The Central Valley water board’s first nitrate management zone order starts a decades-long cleanup effort around Modesto, ...

Excessive nitrates can harm infants and those with compromised immune systems. Presence of nitrates, which can come from a variety of sources, can be an indicator of other contaminants, such as ...

Iowa’s nitrate removal facility has already run 163 days in 2026 as experts link recent rains to stubbornly high water levels ...

The adverse effects of excess nitrate in water on human productivity and lives have received increasing attention due to the discharge of industrial wastewater and the overuse of farmland fertilizers.

A major long-term study of more than 54,000 adults found that where nitrate comes from may matter far more than how much you ...