Nebraska towns pay millions to fight nitrates as water bills go up

In other words, the problem is excessive fertilizer use. Once again, taxpayers are shouldering the real costs of agricultural production.

Farmers will whine about their property taxes, nonetheless.

Yep. And just the tip of the iceberg; water tables are dropping. PBS series titled "H2O" explores the water crisis globally.

This sounds like a cost that should be a part of agricultural production and factored into prices paid for whatever is being grown in these overfertilized areas.

It sound like fertilizer use should be stopped immediately! I used to fertilize and get rid of those "nasty weeds" No more the world is more important. Food can be grown with out all this garbage - water is the new oil!