Iowa’s Water Nears Undrinkable Level. Surprise.

Doesn’t it feel good to say I told you so? I know we are supposed to outgrow that after middle school, but, you know, some things just can’t be helped.

As if out of the blue, like flying monkeys from the Wizards of Oz, the Des Moines public water works issued a statement and warning, followed up quickly by surrounding cities like Ankeny, about our drinking water sources being in danger.

In classic fashion, we have been chastised by the powers that be to stop watering our lawns for the greater common good. But, any normal person would stop short and ask … “Where did this come from?”

For many people, those who follow our natural resources, this will come as no surpise what-so-ever. But, for probably thousands of Iowan’s, this is a ball coming from left field, out of nowhere. Unaware that there was any problems, and now told that our drinking water is on the brink of being undrinkable … and “in crisis”

I mean honestly, I myself wrote about the dangers of this very issue back in January, warning that the writing has been on the wall for years and was getting to a critical impasse.

Anyone can head over to the USGS website and see nitrate levels on many of Iowa’s rivers. I mean not that long ago the EPA was pushing Iowa about nitrate levels in these rivers that are now causing these possible drinking. All this back in 2024!

You want to know the best … or most embarrsing part of this entire situation we find ourselves in? Besides the part where you can’t wave a wand and fix decades of miss-management by the Iowa DNR and farmers? That back in 2024 when the EPA warned of problems with nitrate in drinking water, this has set off a flurry of political kick ball between the EPA, the DNR, and I’m trying to keep a straight face … “The Iowa Farm Bureau Federation” and the “Fertilizer Institute.”

If you go to this document, on page 141 you can read Kayla Lyons response to the EPA. I can summarize her response to Iowa’s water quality problems, as seen in nitrate levels for you if you don’t want to read her letter yourself.

… While nitrate is a consequential and harmful pollutant, the EPA has never legally classified nitrate as a “Toxic Pollutant” under the CWA …”

Essentially Kayla’s argument is about semantics, if it isn’t exactly by the books you can’t hold us accountable end of story. I’m assuming you can go and figure out who the DNR is trying to protect …

• The Iowa Farm Bureau Federation
• Fertilizer Institute
• People of Iowa

I mean I don’t care who you are, what your political affiliation is, if you live in Iowa, espeically central Iowa, and you’ve been put on notice about your drinking water … maybe you should decide to hold the Governor, Iowa DNR, and the head of the Iowa DNR responsible for delivering this situation on a sliver platter, and expecting you to thank them for it.

I mean how would like to be the recipient of an email like this out of the blue?

Honestly, if there was a Netflix docu-series on this topic, considering where we are today, at this moment, and statements made by our head of the Iowa DNR, you couldn’t ask for a more enticing set of corporate colluding buffoonery.

You want to know the funniest part of it all? As recently reported by the AP Press, the powers that be are dead set on chastising people for watering the lawns, INSTEAD OF TALKING ABOUT THE ROOT CAUSE! Like I said, you can’t make this stuff up.

Truly, Iowa’s long-standing agriculture past, with a non-functioning DNR, is destroying our land and water.

How long will the sheeple of Iowa put up with the destruction of the natural resources they own as people living in this beautiful state? Will they really let the powers that be look down upon them from their ivory towers and lecture them about watering lawns? All the while laying in bed with corporate powers and companies, massive farms who pour unthinkable destruction onto our land and into our waters.

 Do you think the head of the Iowa DNR who only last year, pooh-poohed the EPA for telling them we have nitrate problems, and then released a statement fighting them and downplaying the problem is going to apologize, recant the wrong done and step up to fix the underlying complex problems that would stab at the very heart of billions of corporate dollars?

Not going to happen Sunny-Jim.

What should be done to address this fundamental problem that has been multiple decades in the making? How can we hold the governor, the Iowa DNR, the corporate junkies, the legislator, responsible for what they have allowed to happen to the citizens they are supposed to serve?

Comment below!