The Dark Side of America’s Big Agriculture

• We have been struggling with high nitrate levels in our source water. - It could be farm runoff, fertilization, number of things. - Nearly every Iowa County in the Hawkeye state is battling against manure being released into their water.- 11.12% that is over the limit. - Treatment plants across central Iowa are having a hard time treating it. - We have at what was at one time the largest nitrate removal facility in the world, and unfortunately even that wasn't able to keep up with the level of nitrate tha ...