Water sources in agricultural areas across much of the Midwest often show high levels of nitrate. Federal standards require drinking water to stay below 10 parts per million. But a growing number of studies suggest levels even lower than that federal standards could also be tied to serious health issues.
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- Kansas students will need a few different classes to earn their high school diploma, starting with this year’s eighth-graders.
- Last weekend’s storm brought more than one foot of snow to some parts of central Kansas – about the equivalent of an inch of rain.
- Kansas received nearly $5 million dollars this year from the federal government to help clean up abandoned coal mines.
- Wichita State University will receive the first Internet Exchange Point in Kansas.
- A Kansas initiative is working to fill vacant jobs in the state while also helping people released from prison find employment.
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