{"id":2292,"date":"2014-08-06T08:31:20","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T08:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=2292"},"modified":"2014-08-19T08:44:43","modified_gmt":"2014-08-19T08:44:43","slug":"toxins-in-your-drinking-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/toxins-in-your-drinking-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Toxins in your drinking water?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.guim.co.uk\/sys-images\/Guardian\/Pix\/pictures\/2014\/8\/3\/1407090128233\/2cc1761e-8282-42d3-b82e-025dac9d9470-460x276.jpeg?resize=300%2C180\" alt=\"lake erie water\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" align=\"right\" \/>It happens regularly now.\u00a0 Tonnes of agricultural fertiliser and sprays running off the land in to the water system causing eutrophication.\u00a0 Algae bloom and everything else dies.\u00a0 And even massive municipal treatment plants can&#8217;t clean the water.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Farming practices and climate change cause the problem, which will not go away until we all choose to live more sustainably on the planet.<\/p>\n<p>Bottoms up!<\/p>\n<p>The Guardian: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2014\/aug\/03\/toledo-water-pollution-farming-practices-lake-erie-phosphorus\">Farming practices and climate change at root of Toledo water pollution<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASA Earth Observatory: <a href=\"http:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/IOTD\/view.php?id=84125&amp;src=eoa-iotd\">Algae Bloom on Lake Erie<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>For related articles and information, please visit OCA&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.organicconsumers.org\/farm.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">Farm Issues page<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.organicconsumers.org\/health.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">He<\/a> <\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.organicconsumers.org\/health.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">alth Issues page<\/a> and our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.organicconsumers.org\/environment.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">Environment and Climate Resource Center page<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It happens regularly now.\u00a0 Tonnes of agricultural fertiliser and sprays running off the land in to the water system causing eutrophication.\u00a0 Algae bloom and everything else dies.\u00a0 And even massive municipal treatment plants can&#8217;t clean the water.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Farming practices and climate change cause the problem, which will not go away until we all choose to &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/toxins-in-your-drinking-water\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Toxins in your drinking water?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,7,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-climatechange","category-living"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-AY","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2292"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2294,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2292\/revisions\/2294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}