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kestrel91316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-16-07 03:28 PM
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2. pollution from sources including farm fertilizer, soil erosion and discharge from sewage treatment p
This is why we ALL need to:
1) Eat less meat, so there is less factory-farm manure to spill into the Mississippi.
2) Buy organic whenever possible, to minimize topsoil loss and toxic runoff laden with herbicides, pesticides, and fertilizer. Organic growers use cover crops and crop roation to build the soil up rather than erode it by plowing.
3) Stop using those nasty chemicals on lawns. They run off.
4) Use (waste) less water. Too much water going into the sewers overloads the sewage treatment plants so they have to dump untreated or partially treated waste.

I get tired of everyone scratching their heads about these "mysterious" dead zones. WE are causing them - with OUR polluting, wasteful, thoughtless ways.
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