Argumentative Essay On Nitrates

Statewide Water Commission Convention There are many problems having to deal with our water throughout the state of Iowa. In the articles, Iowa’s Nasty Water War, Conflict Over Soil and Water Quality Puts ‘Iowa Nice’ to a Test, and Dead Zones, all share important reasons to what is happening. A huge problem that is dealing with our water is nitrates, which is a serious acid and is making our water very unhealthy. All of these articles each share important reasons to why nitrates are so bad and the effect it has on people. Some problems are, that nitrates are costing cities way too much money, the struggle it puts on farmers, and the fact it is one of the causes to eutrophication. After reading the article, Iowa’s Nasty Water War, written by Clay Masters(2016), it is hard to believe how much money is being spent removing nitrates from rivers. Nitrates have become a regular problem in Iowa’s rivers and because of this, the articles states, that Des Moines Water Works installed a facility to extract the pollutant from its drinking water to stay within federal guidelines, costing them in 2013,
Bill Stowe, the chief executive of Des Moines Water Works state's, “High nitrate runoff, which can result from nitrogen-rich soil and applied fertilizer, places Des Moines’s drinking water in danger of violating federal quality standards.” These runoff nitrates that are spreading throughout the rivers are causing the water works to enforce some standards that farmers should meet, which is hard for them because most farmers use nutrient-rich dirt to grow some of the most productive cropland, the article states. Even though most farmers do not want nitrates to increase in the rivers, it is hard for them to compromise because their crops will then be