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Alan S. Kolok, the new head of the Idaho Water Resources Reserach Institute and author of the informative Modern Poisons: A Brief Introduction to Contemporary Toxicology, visited Oregon State University on 12 March and gave this excellent presentation, Crowdsourcing and Wicked Water Quality Problems (PDF):
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Enjoy!
"Sooner or later, wittingly or unwittingly, we must pay for every intrusion on the natural environment." - Barry Commoner
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Data resolution is critical -- toxins like pesticides may cause harm (to human & animal health and the greater environment) even when present at ppb concentrations in drinking water. And the greater problem is the lack of cost-effective remediation to removed the contaminants. Prevention is always better than remediation, but in the case of agricultural pesticides politics and lobbyists play a crucial role in the continued use of the chemicals. Pesticides are "Big Business" and where there are large sums of money, there is also strong resistance to losing that source of money.
Posted by: EJ Hanford | Monday, 19 March 2018 at 07:25 AM