People who use a private well are encouraged to test their drinking water this April. Tristin Faust, microbiologist for the ...

Water testing is available to homeowners, cabin owners or vacation homeowners with private wells in all counties.

Monitoring nitrate is one of today's biggest water quality challenges. Michigan Tech professor Joshua Pearce and the Nitrate Elimination Company are looking to make this process better. Disclaimer: ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (WOWT) - How many nitrates are in your drinking water? The state is offering drinking water well owners the opportunity to find out exactly. The Nebraska Department of Environment and ...

Two water departments have advised residents In Los Angeles against drinking tap water due to potential contamination concerns from the ongoing wildfires. The risk of chemicals and pathogens entering ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (WOWT) - The Nebraska Department of Environment and Energy is encouraging private well owners who requested free nitrate sample kits to test drinking water to return those kits to the ...

LITTLE BIT, AND WE’LL CHECK BACK IN WITH YOU SOON. RIGHT NOW, MUCH OF CENTRAL IOWA IS STILL UNDER A LAWN WATERING BAN. IT’S DUE TO HIGH NITRATE LEVELS IN OUR WATER SOURCES. YOU’RE TAKING A LOOK AT ALL ...

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 ...

Iowa volunteers begin water testing as advocates push for state fundingby Zach Sommers, Iowa Capital Dispatch March 30, 2026 ...

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 ...