Water quality is everyone’s problem

It is disheartening to learn of summer spikes in bacteria at 2/3’s of Iowa’s state beaches. Iowa is falling far short of managing our nutrient load including nitrite and phosphate runoff from our land and into our waterways. Not to mention, the eroding loss of our topsoil. Iowa’s economic engine and the black gold among our natural resources.

Iowa’s first in the nation per capita cancer mortality rate (and rising cancer trends) coupled with communities across the State having drinking water perpetually at risk are bad for business and a detriment to recruiting the skilled workforce Iowa needs to be competitive in the world marketplace.

The rhetoric and lack of urgency to address Iowa’s water quality remain unchanged since the 1990s. Touting volunteer

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