Chris Jones is a leading water quality scientist running to be the next Iowa Secretary of Agriculture. "I believe every Iowan has a right to clean water."
Chris Jones, a retired water scientist, is rewriting the political playbook in Iowa, taking on the state’s water and cancer crisis by challenging the power of Big Ag.
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Central IA Water Works announced Monday that water use is again restricted in the Des Moines area because of elevated stream nitrate. The world’s largest nitrate removal facility is no longer large enough to cope with pollution from Iowa’s corn-soy-CAFO-ethanol production scheme.
We don’t lack solutions to this problem. Contrary to politician rhetoric, we don’t need more research. What we need is political courage to confront those responsible for the pollution.
Central IA Water Works announced Monday that water use is again restricted in the Des Moines area because of elevated stream nitrate. The world’s largest nitrate removal facility is no longer large enough to cope with pollution from Iowa’s corn-soy-CAFO-ethanol production scheme.