Water is something many of us take for granted, but thousands of Iowa residents have experienced contaminated water and shortages this summer.
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Iowa’s Water Crisis: Shortages and Dangerous Nitrate Levels Affecting Thousands
- Regional Water General Manager Tom Kallman says it is now pumping water from Council Bluffs to its customers in eastern Pottawattamie County. That doesn’t mean, though, everything’s back to normal.
- “Most of the calls in the last couple weeks that we got were from people who were asking if they could fill their pools for the 4th of July and I was the Grinch who basically stole Independence Day because I told them ‘no,'” Kallman said.
- Atlantic farmers Denise O’Brien and Larry Harris are teaching neighbors to test the waterways, which ultimately filter into our drinking water systems. They’ve been concerned since the ’70s: “That’s when we first came across the term ‘blue baby’ … It’s when the nitrates rob babies of oxygen,” said “O’Brien.
BROADCAST TRANSCRIPT:
Water: how often do you give it a second thought? For thousands of Iowa neighbors, it isn’t something they can take for granted…