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BY\u00a0SCOTT MCFETRIDGE<\/p>

Published 2:21 PM GMT+1, July 4, 2021<\/span><\/div>
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) \u2014 In the dim light just after dawn, Bill Blubaugh parks his Des Moines Water Works pickup truck, grabs a dipper and a couple plastic bottles and walks down a boat ramp to the Raccoon River, where he scoops up samples from a waterway that cuts through some of the nation\u2019s most intensely farmed land.<\/p>

Each day the utility analyzes what\u2019s in those samples and others from the nearby Des Moines River as it works to deliver drinking water to more than 500,000 people in Iowa\u2019s capital city and its suburbs.<\/p>

\u201cSome mornings walking down, it smells like ammonia,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s concerning. I\u2019m down here every morning and care about the water.\u201d<\/p>

Water Works for years has tried to force or cajole farmers upstream to reduce the runoff of fertilizer that leaves the rivers with sky-high nitrate levels but lawsuits and legislative lobbying have failed<\/a>. Now, it\u2019s considering a drastic measure that, as a rule, large cities just don\u2019t do \u2014 drilling wells to find clean water.<\/p>

Small communities and individuals use wells, but large U.S. metro areas have always relied primarily on rivers and lakes for the large volumes of water needed. Surface sources provide about 70% <\/a>of fresh water in the U.S., as a reliance on wells for big populations would otherwise quickly deplete aquifers.<\/p>

However, the utility in Des Moines is planning to spend up to $30 million to drill wells to mix in pure water when the rivers have especially high nitrate levels from farm runoff, most likely in the summer.<\/p>

After spending $18 million over the last two decades on a system to treat the tainted river water, it\u2019s frustrating to pay out millions more for something other cities wouldn\u2019t imagine, say utility officials.<\/p>

\u201cI look at it in disbelief,\u201d said Ted Corrigan<\/a>, the CEO and general manager of Water Works.<\/p>

Des Moines has become an extreme example of the conflict over clean water between agriculture and cities in farm states with minimal regulation.<\/span><\/p>

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The question that one can ask is, is “If the long term farming practice sustainable for anyone? If the city can’t during the water, who’s going to purchase the agricultural products, or even, who’s going to farm if they can’t drink the water?\u00a0<\/p>

As a healthier, long-term solution, The Oaktree suggests that it’s time to turn the farming practice to regenerative<\/a> farming, using biochar<\/a> to restore the soil, so it can hold the nitrogen, minerals and other nutrients, instead of leaking into the river.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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