Dementia is often described as a disease shaped by age and genetics, but daily choices also play a role. New international ...

A large, decades-long population study suggests that the relationship between diet and dementia may hinge on subtle chemical differences in everyday foods and water.

As Central Iowa Water Works imposes a lawn-watering ban to help ensure member utilities have the capacity to treat high levels of nitrates in their source water, some central Iowans are eyeing the ...

LEVELS HAVE GOTTEN THIS HIGH. SO WE KEEP TALKING ABOUT NITRATES, BUT WHAT EXACTLY IS A NITRATE? NEW AT FOUR. KCCI’S NICOLE TAM HAS THE ANSWER TO THAT QUESTION AND WHY IT’S SO IMPORTANT TO WATCH THOSE ...

Dec. 13—Some Centralia area residents living in the Fords Prairie neighborhood near Centralia High School and the banks of the Chehalis River are now questioning whether it's safe to drink the water ...

EIGHT NEWS. IOWA’S NEWS LEADER. WELL, STAYING ON THE TOPIC OF WATER, THE NITRATE LEVELS IN THE DES MOINES AND RACCOON RIVERS ARE DROPPING. GREAT NEWS. YESTERDAY, THE LEVEL IN THE DES MOINES RIVER WAS ...

YODER, Kan. (KSNW) — Nitrate levels for the water district that serves the Yoder community are still too high. The Reno County Public Works Department says tests earlier this month show that Rural ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Local officials warned more than half a million Iowans in the state’s capital city and suburbs on Thursday that near-record level of pollutants in its rivers could make ...

Des Moines Water Works says it is withdrawing water from the reservoir, possibly compromising the ice, due to high nitrate ...

Map of Nitrate Measures in Public Water: Iowa (1970-1988). Figure 2 reports the median nitrate level in each month-year of all reported public water measures in Iowa (1970-1988). Each blue point is a ...

(Iowa Capital Dispatch) - Nitrate concentrations, exacerbated by a wet spring that followed years of dry conditions, reached near record highs in Iowa rivers this summer. Concentrations are typically ...