http://earth911.com/blog/2007/07/18/american-waters-what-hurts-what-helps/ Make Everyday Earth Day Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:48:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://earth911.com/blog/2007/07/18/american-waters-what-hurts-what-helps/#comment-119 pel1 Thu, 19 Jul 2007 14:16:38 +0000 http://earth911.com/blog/2007/07/18/american-waters-what-hurts-what-helps/#comment-119 Another issue that is not addressed in this article is the amount of aquatic herbicides that are being dumped into our waterways to control aquatic plants. It is less expensive up front to use herbicides over the sustainable long term methods, but one has to wonder, what are the long term effects. Especially, with everything else that is in the water. Safety studies are only done on one chemical not on the compounded chemical cocktails that are created in our waterways. So, is it really safe to swim? Especially with small children, who tend to put everything into their mouths (silt, sand) while their little bodies are still developing. Another issue that is not addressed in this article is the amount of aquatic herbicides that are being dumped into our waterways to control aquatic plants. It is less expensive up front to use herbicides over the sustainable long term methods, but one has to wonder, what are the long term effects. Especially, with everything else that is in the water. Safety studies are only done on one chemical not on the compounded chemical cocktails that are created in our waterways. So, is it really safe to swim? Especially with small children, who tend to put everything into their mouths (silt, sand) while their little bodies are still developing.

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