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Water woes predicted for hundreds of thousands in Iowa

The largest water utility in Iowa is sounding alarms that it won’t be able to keep up with cleaning the water for more than 600,000 customers as extreme weather swings become more common.

Clay Masters of Iowa Public Radio reports.

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