Tap water toxin: ‘I remember when I could drink water from the faucet’ | CNN The tap water of over 60 million Americans has alarming levels of nitrates linked to cancer and other health harms, a new report found.

Extremely exciting to see this article on CNN about my new national nitrate analysis and map that was released today. It features quotes from @theswinerepublic.bsky.social and Iowa State Rep. Dr. Austin Baeth. www.cnn.com/2026/04/23/h...

#Iowa CHRIS JONES for Secretary of Agriculture is the right person for the times and the situation.

This race matters, not just for stewardship of the farmland around us, but for the very water we drink.

Prevent cancer with a vote!

www.chrisjonesforiowa.com

Tap water toxin: ‘I remember when I could drink water from the faucet’ | CNN The tap water of over 60 million Americans has alarming levels of nitrates linked to cancer and other health harms, a new report found.

“It’s a peace-of-mind issue,” Jones said. “If you know the water coming out of your tap is above 3 milligrams per liter of nitrates and you want peace of mind, then I think a reverse osmosis system on the kitchen cold tap is advisable.”

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Tonight in Maquoketa

It could be mapleleaf viburnum

#iowa A vote for Chris Jones @theswinerepublic.bsky.social is a vote for clean water.

Idk but it is interesting to me that some orgs scream bloody murder on how renewable energy projects gobble up farmland but crickets on data centers doing the same

408,000 pounds of nitrate-nitrogen going down the Wapsi today.

1.7 million pounds of nitrate-nitrogen traveling down the Des Moines River today.

2.1 million pounds of nitrate-nitrogen traveling down the Iowa River today.

Who knew that Trump was capable of using the correct spelling of strait

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Abt 2.5 million lbs of nitrate-nitrogen will pass by the town of Wapello in the Iowa River today.
About 1.6 million lbs will pass through keosauqua in the Des Moines River. 2 rivers, 1 day, 4.1 million lbs. That’s equal to contents of 1200 anhydrous ammonia nurse tanks that you see in fields now.

Gulf dead zone should be named the Iowa Dead Zone Death and taxes get all the ink. But you’ve also got to admire the i

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Nitrate 2026 vs 2025
Des Moines River at Ottumwa
2026: Brown
2025: Green

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Nitrate 2026 vs 2025
Des Moines River at Des Moines
2026: Blue
2025: Brown

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Nitrate 2026 vs 2025
Iowa River at Iowa City
2026: Green
2025: Blue

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Nitrate, 2026 vs 2025
Raccoon River at Van Meter (just west of Des Moines)
2026: Green
2025: Blue

Deep Mapping the St. Croix As part of this year’s Big Read in the St. Croix Valley, St. Croix 360 founder Greg Seitz will...

I'm giving an online presentation next Tuesday about my writing and mapping work, as well as last summer's artist residency at Pine Needles. Please tune in! stcroixsplash.org/event/deep-m...

Absolutely remarkable statement from Pope Leo today.
One for the history books
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Tom Vilsack, sitting in front of a Bayer logo, basically endorsing the Republican approach to degraded water quality in Iowa.
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So obvious

Chris Jones for Iowa Secretary of Agriculture talks CLEAN WATER.

New Public Dashboard Provides Data on Water Pollution Flowing into Lake Erie - Alliance for the Great Lakes CHICAGO, IL (April 7, 2026) – Today, the Alliance for the Great Lakes and its partners announced a new, publicly available dashboard that provides near real-time data about water quality […]

Cool @alliancegreatlakes.bsky.social project development. You can now see real time data of pollution flowing into Lake Erie.

Sioux City Saturday Night
Western Iowans want clean water too!

If Iowa water sensors go dark, what we don’t know can hurt us People who care about clean water are hunting for funding to sustain the network

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March Madness And...why Mike Naig and Republicans hate water monitoring

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