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The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship will partner with the city of Ames and the Story County Soil and Water Conservation District on water qu

The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship will partner with the city of Ames and the Story County Soil and Water Conservation District on water qu

Iowans are starting to learn more about another major piece of the Senate bill. Call it The Great Tax Swap.

 Alongside rising global population levels is the continual development and expansion of various industries, including pharmaceuticals, refining and manufacturing.  In spite of their differences, each of these industries is responsible for a generation of extremely contaminated waters and has a vested interest in ensuring water quality. Image credit: Avatar_023/Shutterstock.com Both municipal and industrial wastewaters present considerable health risks to human health and also endanger the en...

by Perry Beeman The country’s top environmental official spent his first trip to Iowa largely meeting with farmers, not environmentalists.  Michael Regan, a former top North Carolina environment official who now heads the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, told reporters at a news conference near the Dico Superfund site in Des Moines he will be in no rush to change the state’s voluntary Nutrient Reduction Strategy.  He did not sound like a man moving quickly to regulate nitrogen an...

Iowa State, city of Ames partner to reduce nutrient runoff, improve recreation Caroline Westort Newswise — AMES, Iowa — A partnership with the city of Ames is giving Iowa State University students an opportunity to propose the redesign of an area of the city with the goals of reducing nutrient runoff and improving recreation.  An ISU College of Design interdisciplinary studio, “Farmscape,” led by Caroline Westort, associate professor of landscape architecture, is collaborating with th...

Date Time Iowa State, city of Ames partner to reduce nutrient runoff, improve recreation AMES, Iowa — A partnership with the city of Ames is giving Iowa State University students an opportunity to propose the redesign of an area of the city with the goals of reducing nutrient runoff and improving recreation. Caroline Westort An ISU College of Design interdisciplinary studio, “Farmscape,” led by Caroline Westort, associate professor of landscape architecture, is collaborating with the c...

Wisconsin Examiner American Rivers ranks the Raccoon River as the ninth-most-endangered in the country. (Photo by Perry Beeman/Iowa Capital Dispatch) Des Moines Water Works will face a “catastrophe” unless Iowa finds a way to reduce farm pollution in the Raccoon River, which last week was named as one of the nation’s most endangered, the utility’s CEO said. “It is clear, given the ammonia, phosphorus, and thousands of pounds of nitrogen that flow past our treatment p...