The Iowa Farm Bureau and other commodity groups are bankrolling legal expenses racked up in defense of a lawsuit filed by Des Moines Water Works over nitrate pollution in the Raccoon River, a Farm Bureau spokesman confirmed.

 

Water Works filed suit last year against drainage districts in three northwest Iowa counties — Buena Vista, Calhoun and Sac — claiming that the districts, and indirectly farmers, are raising nitrate levels in the river, a source of water for 500,000 Iowa residents.

 

But exactly where the money is coming from to litigate the expensive lawsuit — and how much it will cost — has been a question mark.

 

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