Iowa Soil, Water Quality Conflict; Microbeads Hazard in NY Waters

(Before It's News)

Conflict over soil and water quality puts ‘Iowa nice’ to a test. Too little has been done, the lawsuit says, to prevent nitrates from flowing out of farm fields into the Raccoon River and, eventually, into the drinking water supply for roughly 500,000 Iowans.

Microbeads’ hazard in New York state waters. Samples of treated wastewater, including those taken from six Western New York plants, show that plastic “microbeads” washed down sink and shower drains are passing straight through the facilities and into area waterways.

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