Des Moines Water Works activated its nitrate removal system last week

[THE_DEVIL]

https://iowacapitaldispatch.com/2024/05/12/many-iowa-rivers-are-brimming-with-nitrate/

“This is one of the biggest nitrate leaching events in 11 years,” said David Cwiertny, director of the Center for Health Effects of Environmental Contamination at the University of Iowa.

 

[95Hawk]

Those private school vouchers and tax cuts ain’t gonna pay for themselves. What else are you gonna spend public money on? Clean water? C’mon.

 

[lucas80]

This is what happens in a blue city. Typical Lib mismanagement. Rural Iowa has elite water.

Signed,

@NorthernHawkeye

 

[Chishawk1425]

https://iowacapitaldispatch.com/2024/05/12/many-iowa-rivers-are-brimming-with-nitrate/

“This is one of the biggest nitrate leaching events in 11 years,” said David Cwiertny, director of the Center for Health Effects of Environmental Contamination at the University of Iowa.

But Kimmy returned 30 million in federal funds to feed kids and got a 900k grant instead?!

 

[Joes Place]

https://iowacapitaldispatch.com/2024/05/12/many-iowa-rivers-are-brimming-with-nitrate/

“This is one of the biggest nitrate leaching events in 11 years,” said David Cwiertny, director of the Center for Health Effects of Environmental Contamination at the University of Iowa.

So....the fish you get from them will never spoil, then, right?

 

[MichaelKeller99]

The goal of the NLRS is to reduce the rates of nitrogen and phosphorus loading in our rivers and streams by 45%. As the report shows, Illinois is far from reaching that goal. In fact, the amount of nutrient pollution has actually increased as compared to the 1980-1996 baseline.

“The five-year average from 2017-21 shows nitrogen loads increased by 4.8% to 416 million pounds annually and total phosphorus loads increased by 35% to 46 million pounds annually, when compared to the 1980-96 baseline.” (IDOA and IEPA. 2023)

This overall increase in pollution occurred despite the fact that there was a 34% decrease in phosphorus and a 12% decrease in nitrogen from point sources such as municipal and industrial wastewater facilities, indicating that non-point agricultural runoff has dramatically increased and is thus driving the net increase in nutrient pollution. Notably, pollution from point sources is regulated and limited, while agricultural pollution is largely unregulated.

Blue states are controlled by by the giant Agri-Chem industry too.

But Dem cultists choose to ignore such facts. (California sucks, too, btw)

 

[Kelsers]

The goal of the NLRS is to reduce the rates of nitrogen and phosphorus loading in our rivers and streams by 45%. As the report shows, Illinois is far from reaching that goal. In fact, the amount of nutrient pollution has actually increased as compared to the 1980-1996 baseline.

“The five-year average from 2017-21 shows nitrogen loads increased by 4.8% to 416 million pounds annually and total phosphorus loads increased by 35% to 46 million pounds annually, when compared to the 1980-96 baseline.” (IDOA and IEPA. 2023)

This overall increase in pollution occurred despite the fact that there was a 34% decrease in phosphorus and a 12% decrease in nitrogen from point sources such as municipal and industrial wastewater facilities, indicating that non-point agricultural runoff has dramatically increased and is thus driving the net increase in nutrient pollution. Notably, pollution from point sources is regulated and limited, while agricultural pollution is largely unregulated.

Blue states are controlled by by the giant Agri-Chem industry too.

But Dem cultists choose to ignore such facts. (California sucks, too, btw)

How about Iowa?

 

[MichaelKeller99]

How about Iowa?

The air, food and water in Iowa are polluted/toxic just like in every state in the country.

 

[SSG T]

And my wife keeps asking me why I'm looking at houses in Scotland

 

[Tiny Hands Trump]

Well no worries, farmers are good stewards of the land. Those nitrates are almost certainly completely naturally occurring.

 

[Kelsers]

Well no worries, farmers are good stewards of the land. Those nitrates are almost certainly completely naturally occurring.

The Governor is counting on the farmers to do the right thing.

 

[Bank of Hawk]

The proliferation and lucrative nature of spreading hog crap onto farm fields, is partially to blame. It’s cheaper than other methods that were once cheaper than spreading hog crap to get nitrates onto the fields.

 

[Jimmy McGill]

You guys will be wanting to become neighbors with me in Ames. I can start bottling it for you

 

[Mayland]

The goal of the NLRS is to reduce the rates of nitrogen and phosphorus loading in our rivers and streams by 45%. As the report shows, Illinois is far from reaching that goal. In fact, the amount of nutrient pollution has actually increased as compared to the 1980-1996 baseline.

“The five-year average from 2017-21 shows nitrogen loads increased by 4.8% to 416 million pounds annually and total phosphorus loads increased by 35% to 46 million pounds annually, when compared to the 1980-96 baseline.” (IDOA and IEPA. 2023)

This overall increase in pollution occurred despite the fact that there was a 34% decrease in phosphorus and a 12% decrease in nitrogen from point sources such as municipal and industrial wastewater facilities, indicating that non-point agricultural runoff has dramatically increased and is thus driving the net increase in nutrient pollution. Notably, pollution from point sources is regulated and limited, while agricultural pollution is largely unregulated.

Blue states are controlled by by the giant Agri-Chem industry too.

But Dem cultists choose to ignore such facts. (California sucks, too, btw)

Nitrate and phos loading into streams and groundwater has nothing to with ‘giant agri-chem’, whatever that means. It is 100% a factor of agricultural practices at the farmer level.

 

[TJ8869]

Let’s get down to brass tacks here. What exactly does this portend for Joel’s swimming pool?

 

[Jimmy McGill]

I should in full honesty note that it isn't just big ag. Industry has just done a lot of damage tot the water as well.

 

[Kelsers]

I should in full honesty note that it isn't just big ag. Industry has just done a lot of damage tot the water as well.

Which I think is better regulated.

 

[Jimmy McGill]

Which I think is better regulated.

Now....but it wasn't. We have superfund places all over.

 

[MichaelKeller99]

Nitrate and phos loading into streams and groundwater has nothing to with ‘giant agri-chem’, whatever that means. It is 100% a factor of agricultural practices at the farmer level.

So these farmers are mixing up 750,000,000 pounds of chemicals in their barns every year, I guess. They’re definitely not buying 750,000,000 pounds of chemicals from gigantic corporations.

It’s been shown that U.S. farmers have actually used 750 million pounds of some 20,000 different agricultural chemicals in just one year,[21] and those that have been used to kill insects and weeds that threaten crop yields end up poisoning natural ecosystems. Plus, as some weeds and bugs have developed resistance to these compounds over the years, chemists have continued to create ever more powerfully-toxic pesticides that are even worse for the environment.

The residues of these chemicals are found at every level of the food chain, and—through the process of bioaccumulation—become more concentrated the higher up the chain one looks. Meaning, in a system that runs the gamut from micro-organisms to humans, people who eat animal products get the highest dosage of toxins.

Water Pollution​

The National Water Quality Inventory report of 2002 noted that agricultural runoff was “the leading cause of river and stream impairment and the second leading cause of impairment in lakes, ponds and reservoirs”[22] which includes fertilizer runoff that typically occurs when rain carries fertilizer into waterways. Runoff from both synthetic fertilizers and animal waste can poison drinking water and aquatic ecosystems, wreaking havoc on human health[23] and wildlife.[24] In the Southern U.S. , where there is an abundance of chicken factory farms, as many as one-third of all underground wells fall below EPA safe drinking water standards for nitrate, a form of nitrogen concentrated in chicken waste.[25]

 

[SalAunese]

The more you post, it’s quite apparent you have little to zero understanding of agriculture or what happens on any of these farms.

 

[ZachJump]

One of the advantages of living someplace that doesn’t have lakes and rivers…one less thing to worry about.

 

[GOHOX69]

Try shitty polluted water, in a small town.

 

[Mayland]

So these farmers are mixing up 750,000,000 pounds of chemicals in their barns every year, I guess. They’re definitely not buying 750,000,000 pounds of chemicals from gigantic corporations.

It’s been shown that U.S. farmers have actually used 750 million pounds of some 20,000 different agricultural chemicals in just one year,[21] and those that have been used to kill insects and weeds that threaten crop yields end up poisoning natural ecosystems. Plus, as some weeds and bugs have developed resistance to these compounds over the years, chemists have continued to create ever more powerfully-toxic pesticides that are even worse for the environment.

The residues of these chemicals are found at every level of the food chain, and—through the process of bioaccumulation—become more concentrated the higher up the chain one looks. Meaning, in a system that runs the gamut from micro-organisms to humans, people who eat animal products get the highest dosage of toxins.

Water Pollution​

The National Water Quality Inventory report of 2002 noted that agricultural runoff was “the leading cause of river and stream impairment and the second leading cause of impairment in lakes, ponds and reservoirs”[22] which includes fertilizer runoff that typically occurs when rain carries fertilizer into waterways. Runoff from both synthetic fertilizers and animal waste can poison drinking water and aquatic ecosystems, wreaking havoc on human health[23] and wildlife.[24] In the Southern U.S. , where there is an abundance of chicken factory farms, as many as one-third of all underground wells fall below EPA safe drinking water standards for nitrate, a form of nitrogen concentrated in chicken waste.[25]

You’re conflating pesticide use with the problems arising from mis-application of phos and N fertilizers. They’re two very different things and require very different solutions to remediate them.

 

[Tenacious E]

Let’s get down to brass tacks here. What exactly does this portend for Joel’s swimming pool?

He doesn’t have a cover so he deals with nitrous goose poop on the reg. He’ll be okay, but he needs to teach me some things.

 

[MichaelKeller99]

You’re conflating pesticide use with the problems arising from mis-application of phos and N fertilizers. They’re two very different things and require very different solutions to remediate them.

32 billion pounds of nitrogen and phosphorus annually (epa.gov) then. Along with the insane amounts of ‘other’ chemicals I mentioned previously. And $165 million spent on buying votes, errr, ‘lobbying’ our esteemed representatives.

Our air, food and water have been made systemically toxic and the liberal clowns on here once again trying to make it a partisan problem with (potentially) partisan solutions.

And you haven’t even touched on glyphosate yet, and how the carcinogen has been found in the air and waters of the Mississippi watershed (https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/news-release/government-tests-find-roundup-widespread-water-air) and how phosphorus can reduce the ability of a river to ‘cleanse’ itself of this poison
(https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412018323286)

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