Iowa sits at 506 per every 100,000 residents when it comes to cancer rates that is below Kentucky and equal with West Virginia when it comes to cancer rates making Iowa one of the top 3 states in the country with the highest cancer rate.
Cancer rates in Iowa are mainly caused by smoking, but factors like Radon exposure and Obesity play a part in the cancer rates as well.
Iowa’s water quality crisis is mainly being caused by a high percentage of nitrate pollution, as well as runoff waste from fertilizers and manure that farmers use. many people in Iowa use private wells as a source for drinking water, the problem is most of those wells are not regulated under the safe drinking water act and can hold a very high percentage of nitrate in them.
