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	Podcast:		What Doesn't Kill You
	Episode:		Episode 217: Des Moines Water Works Sued Upriver Counties for Polluting Municipal Water. Here Is What Happened.
	Category:		Arts
	Duration:		00:42:40
	Publish Date:		2017-03-20 11:53:00
	Description:		This week on What Doesn't Kill You, host Katy Keiffer is joined by Bill Stowe, CEO of Des Moines Water Works, to discuss an Iowa Supreme Court ruling that the utility cannot win damage payments from drainage districts accused of sending fertilizers and other pollution unchecked into the Raccoon River. The utility hoped to recover damages in its lawsuit to make up for the costs of running its nitrate removal facility. But the court upheld nearly a century of precedent that drainage districts are immune to lawsuits.
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