Sewage in drinking water...
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Two phrases you never want to see in the same sentence: drinking water and "sewage blending." And yet, that's the Bush Administration's new plan for your water supply!
Incredibly, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is about to relax restrictions on dumping sewage into our waterways. Their plan would allow water treatment facilities to release sewage filled with human wastes, toxins, bacteria, viruses, parasites and other pollutants into our drinking water.
"Sewage blending" poses a serious threat to our health and our communities. Sewage that has not been fully treated carries diseases such as cholera, hepatitis, respiratory infections, and others which can be life threatening for those with weakened immune systems.
In addition to the health hazards, sewage dumping will have adverse, long-term environmental and economic consequences. Sewage in our waterways forces beach closings, increases the cost of drinking water filtration, damages coral reefs, shuts down shellfish beds, and robs the water of oxygen that fish need to breathe.
Maybe this is old news to Americas, but I just read this, and I am amazed to read this. It sounds to me that, as usual, Bush is helping out big business, while ignoring the bigger picture, the environment, and people.
Sewage in drinking water...
the big environmentalist movements in this country have been co-opted, just like the NRA...it's more about helping big businesses and making big government and taking away property rights than it has to do with the environment.
i'm not saying there aren't good people involved with good intentions, but in the end, it's about taking away property, a hallmark of historical tyranny.
both sides are controlled...people buy into both sides, when they're just buying into big government and tyranny.
i'm sure amsterdam would tell you that sewer water and genetically modified foods are actually good for you.
Sewage in drinking water...
Probably, but as we all should know, those things are not good for you.
