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To subscribe, E-mail the words . . Every year since 1980 the Iowa Geological Survey has found trace amounts of agricultural chemicals in the underground water supplies that serve hundreds of thousands of people. 50 communities in Iowa have nitrate levels in their drinking water that exceed the federal standards. Recent studies have shown that people living in rural parts of Iowa, Nebraska and Illinois have higher than normal risks of developing leukemia, lymphoma and other cancers. Some of the pesticides found in the water in the Middle West are known to cause cancer or are suspected of it.