First study finds neonic pesticides in US drinking water - Sensationalist Headlines

[QUOTE]Small traces of the world's most widely used insecticides have been detected in tap water for the first time. Samples taken by scientists in the US state of Iowa showed that levels of neonicotinoid chemicals remained constant despite treatment. However drinking water treated using a different method of filtration showed big reductions in neonic levels. Scientists say they cannot draw any conclusions relating to human health but argue that further study is needed. ... However concerns over their environmental impacts have also grown and they have been consistently associated with causing harm to bees. So great has the worry been, that there has been a moratorium on their use on flowering crops in the European Union since 2013. A study in 2015 from the US Geological Survey (USGS) found that neonics were widespread in water samples collected from 48 different rivers and streams in the US. This new study from the USGS and the University of Iowa, looked at tap water that was treated in two different filtration systems. Samples from the University of Iowa treatment plant barely removed any of the three main neonic chemicals, clothianidin, imidacloprid and thiamethoxam. Water taken from the Iowa city treatment facility removed 100%, 94% and 85% respectively, of these substances. [/QUOTE] [url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-39504487[/url]

Wouldn't surprise me that all the tons of insecticides used in the last decades are eventually seeping down to deeper groundwater/drinkingwater layers.

[QUOTE=maurits150;52063883]Wouldn't surprise me that all the tons of insecticides used in the last decades are eventually seeping down to deeper groundwater/drinkingwater layers.[/QUOTE] They have. We used to think that the soil acted as a filter to prevent this from happening, but we know better now. Pesticides can seep in from fields, wells, surface water sources, etc. Contamination isn't easy to spot in groundwater sources either. And even then once contamination is found, it can take years before the quality of the water itself improves.

Pesticides have been in the water for years. It has directly contributed to the dead zones in the Mexican Gulf.

Is this what's been turning the friggin frogs gay?

I feel like future generations will be looking back on this period the same way we look back on the mid 20th century when it comes to chemical usage and it scares me. No one really knows the long term effects of things like this until, big surprise, a long period passes and we see the terrible consequences of our actions.

[QUOTE=No_Excuses;52064254]I feel like future generations will be looking back on this period the same way we look back on the mid 20th century when it comes to chemical usage and it scares me. No one really knows the long term effects of things like this until, big surprise, a long period passes and we see the terrible consequences of our actions.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=c:;52064023]Is this what's been turning the friggin frogs gay?[/QUOTE] A science class in the year 2054: We could have prevented [url="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/n2cHkN-hbw4/maxresdefault.jpg"]this.[/url]

[QUOTE=JoeSkylynx;52063943]Pesticides have been in the water for years. It has directly contributed to the dead zones in the Mexican Gulf.[/QUOTE] Nope, that's nitrogenous fertilisers. [editline]6th April 2017[/editline] Also, the evidence for bee harm is shaky: [url]https://www.geneticliteracyproject.org/2014/12/19/bee-experts-shred-harvard-neonics-colony-collapse-disorder-study-upbraid-journalists-for-activist-science/[/url]

[QUOTE=Govna;52063915]They have. We used to think that the soil acted as a filter to prevent this from happening, but we know better now. Pesticides can seep in from fields, wells, surface water sources, etc. Contamination isn't easy to spot in groundwater sources either. And even then once contamination is found, it can take years before the quality of the water itself improves.[/QUOTE] I mean those particles need to be going somewhere. :v: I don't see why the ground would simply stop them but I'm a bit ignorant on the topic.

The government is putting fluoride in the tap water :tinfoil: