How many more billions can we spend, without seeing any real progreithout changing the approach . Tim controversy over how to regulate agricultural practices to protect Water Quality in iowa is again taking center stage. Tim good evening and thank you for agricultural practices to protect Water Quality in iowa is again taking center stage. Tim good evening and thank you for joining us tonight im tim seaman jenna and im Jenna Rehnstrom Water Quality in iowa has been a hot topic as of late. Now, authors of a new study say whats being done by farmers to protect our streams and rivers. Isnt enough. Tim experts on the matter in northwest iowa say their biggest challengngis getting producers informed about their options. Abc9s jess plue tells us more. Jess the Environmental Working Group conducted a water study in iowa saying voluntary Water Conservation methods are overall not working. And arent worth the money. Project coordinator for buena vista and pocahontas counties about how she views
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Grant is funding a study to find ways to best treat the issue of obesity. And one clinic in iowa is helping out. Abc9 News Reporter Christina Gri hallva has more in rural communities, like akron, iowa, nearly 20percent of the population live at a higher risk of obesity and obesity related illness. A new grant is allowing the akron Mercy Medical clinic to study the issue to help find a solution. Partly its gonnas be coaching, partly it is being counseling. So its gonna be a little bit of everything put together. We call it a pragmatic study. Its going to be looking at the way things really are in your life. 40 patients from the clinic have been chosen based on certain criteria. For the next 36 months theyll be following a plan set up by two of the clinics nurses. Well give them kind of the basic structure for each patient, but then well work from there depending on the patients goals and what they want because this is basically their program that their formulating for themselves. Even t
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Christ the King Catholic church in sioux center. Abc9 News Reporter Christina Gri Hall va has more on how this church is rapidly growing. nats bells and singing its kind of like a death as theirir preparing to sayay goodbye e the place and D E Community that theyve known for so long. The Sioux City Diocese announcing last week theyll be closing around 40 parishes due to declining attendance and fewer priests in siouxland. But one church in sioux center is actually seeing their numbers grow. Christ the King Catholic church while the youngest church in the diocese of sioux city has been able to keep its doors open for their growing congregation. Many of our parishes were founded 100125 years ago, um and here were just new, were very young, um immigrants, so were still discovering in one sense who we are and who well be, so its a lot of challenges, but yet their the good kind of challenges, that theres the potential for growth. With a boom in economy growth in Industries Like agriculture