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Warming winters lead to more nitrate pollution in the drinking water near farms
- April 1, 2026 at 2:40 PM
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When pollution gets bad enough in the rivers supplying Iowa's largest city with drinking water, it costs Des Moines around $16,000 a day to run a special system to filter out dangerous nitrates. It's a fact of life in the agriculture-dependent state—and climate change is making the water quality problem even worse.
Originally published at Phys.org