Outrage in Iowa – Residents demand action to clean up dangerously polluted water

Outrage in Iowa – Residents demand action to clean up dangerously polluted water

DES MOINES, Iowa — Several hundred Iowa residents gathered in the state capital this week, calling on public officials – and each other – to take swift action against dangerously polluted water supplies that are closely linked to the state’s powerful agricultural industry. Some attendees drove for hours from rural farmsteads for the Aug. 4 event, squeezing into a packed auditorium on the campus of Drake University to listen to a team of  scienti…

Outrage in Iowa: Residents demand action to clean up dangerously polluted water - Investigate Midwest

This story was originally published by The New Lede. DES MOINES, Iowa — Several hundred Iowa residents gathered in the state capital this week, calling on public officials – and each other – to take swift action against dangerously polluted water supplies that are closely linked to the state’s powerful agricultural industry.   Some attendees drove for hours from rural farmsteads for the Aug. 4 event, squeezing into a packed auditorium on the cam…