The water utility serving a half a million customers in central Iowa including the city of Des Moines says it has switched on its nitrate removal system.Des Moines Water Works CEO Bill Stowe says ...

Spiking nitrate levels in the Des Moines and Raccoon rivers have prompted Des Moines Water Works to fire up its nitrate removal plant for the first time in five years. The plant ensures water is safe ...

This bioreactor in Gifford is scheduled to go online soon. The bioreactor will remove nitrates from the village’s wastewater stream. It will be the first municipal-operated one in the state. Our ...

It’s been a wet spring across Iowa, but water utilities in the Des Moines area are asking people to save water because nitrate levels are high in the Des Moines and Raccoon rivers. The rivers are a ...

DES MOINES (AP) -- A new cleanup system could help end complaints over Des Moines officials dumping nitrates removed from public water supplies back into the river that some southern Iowans must then ...

The Raccoon River is one of the sources of drinking water for Des Moines Water Works. The water utility says nitrate levels in the river are elevated due to a rainy spring, which washes nitrates off ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - High nitrate levels in the Des Moines and Raccoon rivers have forced Des Moines Water Works to turn on an expensive nitrate removal system. Water Works CEO Bill Stowe says he ...

According to a recently published study on the American Chemical Society journal ACS Catalysis, a team of engineering researchers from Rice University has developed a nanoparticle-based catalyst that ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (IOWA CAPITAL DISPATCH) - Iowans in communities around the state, primarily in central and southern regions, have been told to refrain from watering their lawns, washing their cars ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- A new cleanup system could help end complaints over Des Moines officials dumping nitrates removed from public water supplies back into the river that some southern Iowans must ...

The water utility serving a half a million customers in central Iowa including the city of Des Moines says it has switched on its nitrate removal system. Des Moines Water Works CEO Bill Stowe says ...