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You have to remember something --- there is a lot of things that get into our water supply because of uninforced sanitation laws. It is one thing for the EPA to waltz in and try to force a little city with few resources to impliment a billion dollar upgrade to its 100- year old sewer/sewage system and quite another to provide the resources. This scenario is a lot different than the EPA playing house with the chicken and turkey growers PAC in D.C. It's been a battle in Oklahoma for 20-years.
Where do you think the blood, guts and waste ends up? Where do you think human waste and the city garbage ends up when the sewage system in a city the size of Chicago has a massive city wide flood of Sunami proportions.
The city says "We're sorry, we can't control nature." The chicken growers and plants are not located in flood areas. These companies locate in upcorporated areas where there are few laws regarding sanitation. The chicken company says it "was an accident, it won't happen again." In both cases it does.
Human and animal waste that is not strictly controlled enters our Great Lakes, our great rivers, state lakes, city lakes, deep streams and the tributaries that feed the streams where we swim, fish and boat in the same source as our city drinking water. It is possible to collect waste water and convert it into crystal clear, clean healty city water. There is a caveat. It is not cheap and most cities go deeply into debt for years to do it.
Knowing this is why - when our was tested and showed a higher than recommended, but not dangerous, level of nitrogen - I immediately switched to bottled water for all cooking, drinking, brushing teeth. The plastic is collected and recycled into products not used for human consumption such as car parts and carpeting. Our family of two also has some medical issues. Plastic medical supplies are sparated and bagged before it is added to our 50-gal container of plastic that is collected by the city every month. The potassium cloride salt we use in our water conditioner does not negatively impact the environment, animals or ground water. The caveat here is not a big deal; the unit has to be reset from factory specs to properly cycle a different salt.
Another issue is that farm fields are regularly sprayed for pests. I know some who lived near an apple orchard. When the orchard closed ticks and other pests appeared and they could no longer walk their dog nearby.
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