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MILITARY WATER POLLUTION. "The world's military forces are responsible for the release of more than two thirds of CFC-113 into the ozone layer. The Pentagon generates five times more toxins than the five major US chemical companies combined. The US military is the largest single source of US environmental pollution." http://www.sdissues.net/SDIN/uploads/Mil-Envir%2520JOBURG%2520version.doc View in LinkedIn

TOXIC CHEMICALS USED IN MINING. These include sulfuric acid, Alky Aryl Oxime, Petroleum Distillate, Sulfosuccinate surfactant, Alkyl xanthate salt, Nalco 7873—no chemical formula given, and Alcohol/hydrocarbon blend. Usually in large open slurry pits. http://www.savethesantacruzaquifer.info/Chemicals.htm View in LinkedIn

"INITIATIVE 137 was a response to the abysmal track record of open pit cyanide leach mining in Montana, as exemplified by cleanup fiascos at the Golden Sunlight, Zortman/Landusky, and Kendall mines and the Montana Department of Environmental Quality's failure to adequately regulate such mines as required by state law." http://www.savethesantacruzaquifer.info/Chemicals.htm View in LinkedIn

GOLD MINING WITH CYANIDE. "(In the) 2000 Baia Mare cyanide spill, when a break in holding pond dam at a mine waste reprocessing facility near Baia Mare in northern Romania released approximately 100,000 cubic metres ... of waste water contaminated with heavy metal sludge and up to 120 long tons ... of cyanide into the Tisza River." http://lnkd.in/dpTKQ6m View in LinkedIn

NEED FOR AN UPDATE. “For years, people said that America has the cleanest drinking water in the world,” said William K. Reilly, the E.P.A. administrator under President George H. W. Bush. “That was true 20 years ago. But people don’t realize how many new chemicals have emerged and how much more pollution has occurred. If they did, we would see very different attitudes.” http://lnkd.in/d9YTiN5 View in LinkedIn

OUTDATED WATER REGULATIONS. "Government and independent scientists have scrutinized thousands of those chemicals ... and identified hundreds associated with a risk of cancer and other diseases at small concentrations in drinking water ... But not one chemical has been added to ... the Safe Drinking Water Act since 2000."(2009). http://lnkd.in/d9YTiN5 View in LinkedIn

TAP WATER may be legal, but is not necessarily healthy. "Only 91 contaminants are regulated by the Safe Drinking Water Act, yet more than 60,000 chemicals are used within the United States, according to Environmental Protection Agency estimates." http://lnkd.in/d9YTiN5 View in LinkedIn

THE THEORY OF INFINITE DILUTION has generally been the premise of dumping radioactive and toxic materials into our oceans and groundwater. A drop in a vast body of water. But as mercury and other toxins have shown in the oceans, they disproportionately accumulate in fish and other living creatures, and defy this assumption. The theory is false. View in LinkedIn

GROUND-WATER IS A RICH SOUP of aqueous chemicals from natural and man-made sources, sometimes at appreciable levels. Many are part of the natural food chain of plants and microorganisms, and equally, but almost all are cumulative, and do not go away. If we foul our nest, for short-term gain, realistic remedies will be very hard to come by. View in LinkedIn

PHARMACEUTICAL RESIDUES IN WATER at Ng/mL levels. It is now generally accepted that there are measurable amounts of active pharmaceutical residues in groundwater, excreted into urine and flushed into the sewer system, but the debate about their health effects continues. http://lnkd.in/dYGJA4s View in LinkedIn