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The Long Con
As the midnight hour fast approached for the 2026 legislation session, someone apparently informed Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig and Governor Kim Reynolds that drinking polluted water might be an issue in the 2026 election. One we...
Testing, Testing, Testing
The two most important metrics for stream nitrate are concentration and load. Concentration is the amount of a pollutant, i.e. nitrate in this case, per unit volume of water. Nitrate is a negative ion comprised of one nitrogen atom and thre...
March Madness
When viewed over long time periods (decadal, for example), average nitrate concentrations in Iowa streams tend to follow an “S” curve with the calendar. The example below is the Raccoon River at Des Moines, from 1974 to 2025.
Concentration...
Climate Change Mitigation, Iowa Version
A Conceptual Model is defined by Wikipedia as such: A conceptual model is a representation of a system. It consists of concepts used to help people know, understand, or simulate a subject the model represents. It is also a set of concepts....
Indicators of Ignorance...
House File 2530 is being considered in the Iowa legislature this week, and for my money, this is the most ignorant piece of the legislation I can remember, ever. Here’s a summary:
The department (Iowa DNR) shall not place any water of the...
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