The Des Moines area’s first-ever lawn watering ban helps Central Iowa Water Works keep up with nitrate removal to provide ...

Treatment facilities continue to produce water safe for drinking. Rumors contrary to that are untrue, local water officials say.

Central Iowa Water Works reinforced that water coming out of the system’s treatment plants meets federal safe drinking water ...

According to the Iowa Environmental Council, fertilizers are one of the main sources of nitrate pollution in the state.

There’s an emerging trend among cities to treat their rivers as recreational assets. But for those with histories of ...

King County Parks this month opened a new trail segment that connects Burien and SeaTac to the existing Des Moines Creek ...

After growing up on well water and witnessing it change my white basketball and football jerseys to an off-white color, I ...

The Squire Shore, Weasel Run, Mushroom Forest Trail may be the strangest hiking trail name in Iowa. It also belongs on your Hawkeye State hiking bucket list.

For the first time, the new regional water utility Central Iowa Water Works implemented a ban on lawn watering on June ...

Two people were transported to the hospital following an apartment fire in Des Moines’ River Bend neighborhood early Thursday morning. Captain Stacia Swanson of the Des ...

It’s a first for the Central Iowa Water Works, which is worried about maintaining compliance with EPA nitrate standards.

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources has important safety tips for Iowans looking to spend time on Iowa’s waterways. Todd Robertson, a river programs water ...