Iowa’s water and topsoil quality was discussed in the legislature recently. Amy Sinclair, State Senator for the 14th District of Iowa, says there are programs that encourage landowners to make improvements that promote water quality and help prevent topsoil erosion. She says one step to preserve both Iowa’s water and topsoil is state cost matching for land improvements. Landowners would be allowed to get matching funds from the state to make improvements to their property if they wished. She says choice of the landowners must be the deciding factor to make these improvements, not coercion on the part of the state.