Scientists say Polk County’s water quality report findings are applicable to Eastern Iowa, too

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IOWA CITY — Despite continued contamination and nitrate spikes in Iowa’s rivers and streams this year, University of Iowa researcher Elliot Anderson insists that the state’s water quality issues can be solved.

“When we're approaching this issue, there's nothing we've reported on tonight that is unsolvable, there's nothing that we can't fix (and) nothing that we can’t improve to make society better,” Anderson, a research scientist in the UI’s IIHR — Hydroscience and Engineering Department, said during an event Wednesday.

Anderson was one of four researchers who participated in an event called Our Water, Our Future. It provided an in-depth look at the Central Iowa Source Water Research Assessme