If your water comes from a public utility, someone else is testing it on a schedule and reporting the results. If it comes ...

Amazon agreed to a $20.5M settlement over nitrate well contamination in Oregon, with 634 wells at unsafe levels and ...

About 23 million U.S. households depend on private wells as their primary drinking water source. These homeowners are entirely responsible for ensuring that the water from their wells is safe for ...

A great first step for our water would be $1 million a year for a system the Iowa Legislature dumped three years ago, writes ...

Public forum to offer free well water testing as residents demand action on fertilizer runoff contaminating Central Sands ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. As water quality issues dominated headlines and nitrate levels spiked in central Iowa rivers last summer ...

Nitrate levels are inching up in a small South Canterbury town where some council water supplies were previously off limits for extended periods twice following breaches of the drinking water ...

The eyes of dead fish and the message “know what you drink” adorn a new billboard near Avoca that urges Iowans to monitor nitrate levels in their water. The billboard is the first of several that the ...

Mower County residents who drink water from a private well can have a sample tested for nitrate next week in Austin at no charge. Mower Soil & Water Conservation District is offering the no-cost ...

The Minnesota Department of Health recommends annual testing for nitrate and other contaminants in all private wells.