Health and environmental groups have urged the World Health Organization (WHO) to overhaul its decades-old nitrate limit for drinking water, saying that even low levels of nitrate can be linked to ...

Dozens of global health and environmental organizations called on the World Health Organization on Tuesday to revise decades-old standards for nitrate levels in drinking water, arguing they do not ...

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Even low levels of nitrate—a common agricultural runoff and drinking water contaminant—are associated with increased risks of preterm birth and low birthweight babies, according to a study published ...

Nitrate levels have risen in more than half of rural Canterbury water supplies over the past decade, according to a survey ...

Extreme weather spurred by climate change, including droughts and heavy rains, may increase the risk of nitrates from fertilizers ending up in groundwater, according to a recent study from researchers ...

For at least the past decade, The New Lede (TNL) reported last September, “a growing number of peer-reviewed medical studies have linked exposure to nitrates in drinking water to elevated incidences ...

Pregnant women exposed to too much nitrate in their drinking water are at greater risk of giving birth prematurely, according to a new study of more than 1.4 million California births. Agricultural ...

At a community forum, Des Moines water officials warned that treatment alone cannot solve the region's nitrate problem and ...

City officials in Fairview have sent out a warning that high levels of nitrate were detected in the city’s water system. Officials said parents should not give tap water to children six months old or ...

Actions to deal with the problem can take between three and five years to show results, the regional council says.

Map of Nitrate Measures in Public Water: Iowa (1970-1988). Figure 2 reports the median nitrate level in each month-year of all reported public water measures in Iowa (1970-1988). Each blue point is a ...