Muscatine

And yet another assumption: "That would put Iowa as one of the worst or the worst in nitrogen pollution".

Since the percent from other states is not noted in this report of yours; how can you make that judgment? At best, you can only say that we might be tied with Illinois, since, allegedly, we share 28%. But the report does not say it is the worst; or that any other state is worse or better. You know what they say about assuming, mall-boy?

Besides all this gobbledy-gook you offer; there are many streams in Iowa that flow into other southern states, then on south to the gulf. Same with Illinois. Again; how would anyone know who's nitrogen was who's?

Likewise, who needs the few being laid off in water quality at the state, when people like mallcontent use private research/nonprofit/authorities as their source for information on pollution? If you want to be a liberal and grow govt (like they always do); then stop using outside sources that have the same state information DNR should have! This alone negates your argument that we should not downsize the state DNR. If nonprofits are the experts you choose and rely on; then why do we need the experts at the DNR? Another double-standard exposed!

Repub., tp, malodery:  These people cannot be taken seriously.  They are obviously full of it.  They make idiotic statements and then ask to be proven wrong.  People that conduct those kind of conversations can be dismissed.  

The Iowa DNR is a highly respected source of water quality information.  They say we have generally good water.  That's good enough to disprove Repub's original post and good enough for me. 

Who's us?

Me and my friend - why do you care?