$300,000. That’s all the House Agriculture and Natural Resources Appropriations Committee proposed allocating for funding the state’s real-time water monitoring network. The Senate committee allocated $Nothing.

TAKE ACTION HERE! Iowa ranks #2 in the U.S. for cancer and is one of two states where cancer cases are rising. Iowa also has some of the nation’s highest concentration of nitrates in our water. Drinking water laden with high nitrate levels is linked to several cancers. We need to know what’s in our water.  This is a matter of public health.    Recent scientific studies  have found that increased nitrate levels in drinking water are directly linked to colorectal, thyroid, ovar

Iowa’s state legislators are on the verge of shutting down the University of Iowa IIHR real-time nitrate water monitoring network on June 30.

Photo: Shutterstock.com/Pixel-Shot On July 1 the state’s water quality sensor network that provides real-time nitrate monitoring will cease functioning. This would especially affect rural municipal water systems that rely on the IIHR network high nitrate level warnings. Would you support restoring funding for the IIHR water quality sensor network by allocating $1 million/year from the Groundwater Protection Fund where funds are already available?   Additional Information for

Please send a comment to Representatives Zach Nunn and Randy Feenstra and tell them to strip harmful pesticide immunity language out of the Farm Bill.