Iowa Water Quality And Cancer Rates
Iowa is facing a budget deficit, high costs and economic strain from trade disputes that have squeezed farmers.Reported by 3 of 3 outlets; wording from The Independent.
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The issue has historically been politically taboo to avoid pointing fingers at the powerful agricultural industry in Iowa, one of the country’s top producers of corn, soybeans and hogs.
Chemical fertilizers and animal waste contain nitrates and phosphorus that can get washed with rain or snowmelt into the state’s web of rivers.
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The problem has long caused tension between Iowa’s more liberal urban centers, which rely on rivers and lakes for drinking water, and mostly conservative stewards of its rich farmland.
Iowa has the second highest rate of newly diagnosed cancers in the country.
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- 14 Oct
Iowa is facing a budget deficit, high costs and economic strain from trade disputes that have squeezed farmers.
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14 Oct Iowa faces a reckoning over water quality and cancer rates in midterm campaigns
ABC News (US)
14 Oct Iowa faces a reckoning over water quality and cancer rates in midterm campaigns
Toronto Star
14 Oct Iowa faces a reckoning over water quality and cancer rates in midterm campaigns
The Independent
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