Nice going EPA.
2006-09-22 04:36:47 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Environment
http://darwin.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=5175&page=17
2006-09-22 04:43:19 · update #1
I'm saying the EPA pretends to protect us but doesn't and allows farms to spray treated sewage solids on food crops.
2006-09-22 04:44:53 · update #2
I would rather have "crap" or biosolids on my food.
If properly treated, wastewater sludge or biosolids can be a safe and beneficial fertilizer, soil ammendment and soil stabilizer.
It has to go through a treatment process to significantly reduce pathogens; has to meet low metals limitations and nutrient requirements; has to meet vector attraction requirements; has to be monitored, sampled, and tested; has to be land-applied at an agronomic rate; and has to be applied using best management practices.
There are more requirements for wastewater treatment than there are for public drinking water and agricultural practices combined.
2006-09-22 17:08:36 · answer #1 · answered by woodenwater1959 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Okay, I'm glad you added those details rather than just asking a pied, "Have you stopped beating your wife?"-type question which can't be answered and curtails actual discussion.
Please recall that the EPA is only a big Washington bureaucracy and its left hand does not know what it's right hand is doing. The same goes for its red hand and its green hand, its up hand and its down hand, its in hand and its out hand.
Our local waste and wastewater treatment plants all have to work individually to keep each community safe. Isn't it great that we live in America instead of some third world hellhole of a country where they have rampant diseases and no environmental protection at all? Thank goodness that short term problems like these are by far the exception to what usually happens in America, and not the daily norm!
2006-09-22 04:59:23 · answer #2 · answered by cdf-rom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Doesn't have to be a choice. There are substitutes for harmful pesticides.
Pesticide residues in drinking water are an insidious problem. How could the majority of people protect themselves if not for the EPA? Are we supposed to have to filter our water and not drink any outside our house? Who's going to make sure it's healthy to drink water but the government?
2006-09-22 04:42:04 · answer #3 · answered by Bob 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I rather crap on the food crops
2006-09-22 13:59:00 · answer #4 · answered by sherrylboodramhot 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I like E. Coli on my spinach..
2006-09-22 10:28:25 · answer #5 · answered by TJD 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
none of them.
2006-09-22 04:43:56 · answer #6 · answered by hidayah tarmizi 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋