4 Notes
6. nitrates in water: Stephen Kalkhoff et al., “Water Quality in the East-
ern Iowa Basins, Iowa and Minnesota, 996 – 98 ,” US Geological Survey Cir-
cular 0 , 000 ,https://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/circ 0 /pdf/Circular 0 .pdf.
7. water quality was governed: Donnelle Eller, “With Water Works’
Lawsuit Dismissed, Water Quality Is the Legislature’s Problem,” Des Moines
Register, last modified March 0 , 0 7 , http://www.desmoinesregister.com
/story/money/agriculture/ 0 7 / 03 / 7 /judge-dismisses-water-works-nitrates
-lawsuit/ 993 79 8 /.
8. divided agricultural interests: Donnelle Eller, “Will Water Works’
Dismissed Lawsuit Lift Pressure on Iowa Farmers? No, Officials Say,” Des
Moines Register, last modified March , 0 7 , http://www.desmoinesregister
.com/story/money/agriculture/ 0 7 / 03 //water-works-dismissed-lawsuit
-lift-pressure-iowa-farmers-no-officials-say/ 994634 /.
9. independence of water utilities: MacKenzie Elmer, “Bill Would
Mean Big Changes for Public Water Utilities. What Are They?” Des Moines
Register, last modified March , 0 7 , http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story
/news/politics/ 0 7 / 03 / 0 /bill-would-mean-big-changes-public-water
-utilities-what-they/ 986 88 0 /; MacKenzie Elmer, “Des Moines Council Sup-
ports Bill Dismantling Water Utilities,” Des Moines Register, last modified
March , 0 7 , http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/ 0 7 / 03 / 0 /des
-moines-council-supports-bill-dismantling-water-utilities/ 993 76 6 /.
30. won a Pulitzer Prize: “Art Cullen of the Storm Lake Times, Storm
Lake, IA,” The Pulitzer Prizes, accessed May 9 , 0 7 , http://www.pulitzer.
org/winners/art-cullen.
3 . $282-million bill: Mike Trautmann, “Iowa’s Water Quality Problems
Really Boil Down to This,” Des Moines Register, last modified January 4 , 0 8 ,
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/ 0 8 / 0 / 3 /why
-iowas-water-quality-problems-matter/ 0 8 6600 /.
3 . On a campus of this size: “Morrill Act.”
33. labor force in 1790 : ERS, “Agriculture and Its Related Industries
Provide Percent of the U.S. Employment” in “Ag and Food Sectors and
the Economy,” last modified October 8 , 0 7 , https://www.ers.usda.gov
/data-products/ag-and-food-statistics-charting-the-essentials/ag-and-food
-sectors-and-the-economy/.
34. food eaten outside the home: ERS, “Table . Food and Alcoholic
Beverages: Total Expenditures” in “Food Expenditures,” last modified January
6 , 0 6 , https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/food-expenditures.aspx.
3 . fate of recent generations: Elizabeth Thomas, The Old Way: A Story of
the First People (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 006 ), 3.