IEC Reports
Water Quality Monitoring and the Water Quality Initiative (2022)
Basic Standards of Care (2022)
The Iowa Nutrient Reduction Strategy – 10 Years and No Progress (2022)
Modernizing Agricultural Drainage Law in Iowa (2020)
The Slow Reality of the Nutrient Reduction Strategy (2019)
Healthy Lands, Healthy Waters: A Watershed Framework for Iowa (2016)
Cultivating Clean Water – State-based Regulation of Agricultural Runoff Pollution (2010)
IEC Resources
Videos
Articles & References
2023
Oct. 2023 – What does Iowa water quality look like after 10 years with the Nutrient Reduction Strategy?
Oct. 2023 – Opinion: Iowa’s Nutrient Reduction Strategy
July 2023 – Doom & Bloom
June 2023 – Letters: Support for conservation isn’t working. Regulation might
June 2023 – The Exchange: Iowa’s Nutrient Reduction Strategy
June 2023 – 2013-2023: A decade of declining water quality in Iowa
May 2023 – Is Iowa’s water cleaner after ten years of state efforts? It depends on who you ask
May 2023 – Reviews mixed as the Iowa plan to cut nutrient runoff reaches 10 years
May 2023 – Dry years cut nitrate loads in Iowa’s rivers
January 2023 – Opinion: As Nutrient Reduction Strategy turns 10, why aren’t Iowa’s waters safer and cleaner?
2022
October 2022 – Voluntary measures may not be enough: Bacteria and algae plague Iowa beaches
August 2022 – Report: IA needs to bolster water-quality monitoring
July 2022 – Iowa Environmental Council calls for improvement to state’s water quality monitoring initiatives
March 2022 – The trickle-down effect of agriculture in Iowa
February 2022 – About half of Iowa’s assessed waterways listed as impaired in biannual DNR report
February 2022 – Iowa DNR lists more than 700 waterways as impaired
2021
June 2021 – Study: Nitrate contamination in water more likely to affect lower income communities in Iowa
