Source: https://www.thenewlede.org/, September 18, 2025
By: Carey Gillam

While all eyes have been on Iowa this summer, where levels of harmful nitrate contamination of water supplies spiked well above federal safety standards, nitrate pollution has also been persistently plaguing water sources in other farm states as well.

On Thursday, Wisconsin environmental advocates issued a lengthy report detailing what the groups said is that state’s own “growing public health crisis from nitrate contamination in drinking water.” Read more.