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Iowa drought is now worst in a decade
Overall dryness in Iowa expanded last week amid unrelenting heat and a lack of rainfall and is now worse than it's been since March 2013, according to a Thursday report by the U.S. Drought Monitor....
DNR proposes new restrictions to prevent Ocheyedan River from drying up
A rural water system in northwest Iowa would be required to idle its wells near the Ocheyedan River when its flow is too low, according to a Department of Natural Resources plan to keep the river...
Judge: Iowa's pipeline land survey law is unconstitutional
State law that allows hazardous liquid pipeline companies access to private land for surveys is unconstitutional because it doesn't provide compensation for intangible damages suffered by landowners,...
Osceola Rural Water pushes back against DNR's restrictions
A rural water utility in northwest Iowa wants to relax its state-mandated reporting requirements despite regulators' finding that it contributed to a river running dry last year. "We're done being...
Part of a northwest Iowa river has been pumped dry
A significant stretch of a northwest Iowa river has run dry several times in the past seven years as a rural water utility has pumped more water from the ground – at least a quarter of which is... 
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