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Does any of that water seep into the underground acquifers that supply drinking water ? And if so, does the ground provide a natural filter to clean out the chemicals and pesticides before it enters to aquifers ? Just curious really.
Sort of hoping the rain might have a positive impact of, to some extent, re-filling the underground fresh water acquifers that seem to be slowly depleting.
Of course because of the size of Hawaii - a place like California will overall use more gallons of pesticides since you can fit hundreds of Hawaii's in California......
And I'd imagine overall, it is going down since so few pineapples or sugar cane is grown here any longer....
Or,
In Kauai, chemical companies Dow, BASF, Syngenta and DuPont spray 17 times more pesticide per acre (mostly herbicides, along with insecticides and fungicides) than on ordinary cornfields in the US mainland
Of course because of the size of Hawaii - a place like California will overall use more gallons of pesticides since you can fit hundreds of Hawaii's in California......
And I'd imagine overall, it is going down since so few pineapples or sugar cane is grown here any longer....
Or,
In Kauai, chemical companies Dow, BASF, Syngenta and DuPont spray 17 times more pesticide per acre (mostly herbicides, along with insecticides and fungicides) than on ordinary cornfields in the US mainland
Per-acre usage of chlorpyrifos and permethrin by the chemical+GMO industry on Kauai was top in the nation by a significant amount
Guardian? Huffington Post? I asked for facts, not extremist-liberal gloom and doom bogus estimates. One article is even prefaced with a statement that says the numbers are bogus (not in those words but anyone intelligent can translate that). You will have extreme stories from the left and the right. The truth lies somewhere in between.
You stated that "brown water" is contaminated by pesticides because Hawaii uses more pesticides than any other place in the nation. That is patently false. The overwhelming majority of storm water run-off contains an imperceptible level of pesticides (i.e. below trace amounts). Now if you want to take a beach at the base of a hill that was once used for cultivation of corn over many decades, yes, there is a good chance there will be TRACE amounts of pesticides in the storm water run-off... but even then it will have absolutely zero impact on peoples' health. When it rains very heavy, water makes it into our wastewater system and this almost guarantees that there will be some untreated sewage making its way into the ocean. That is the concern - raw or partially treated sewage making into swimming spots. Other concerns could be run off from landfills or illegal dumping grounds which can contain heavy metals and other toxic waste that is harmful to humans. There is also a very small threat of becoming ill from the bacteria in feces from our mountainside wildlife. But pesticides don't even rank as a remote concern.
Brown water just isn't sewage - statewide due to the heavy rains, essentially all that water that falls on the mountains has to get down to the ocean at some point - and given Hawaii uses the most pesticides in the US, the water coming down the mountains temporarily gets contaminated.
It's not pesticides, it's waste from feral pigs, cats, and goats
Guardian? Huffington Post? I asked for facts, not extremist-liberal gloom and doom bogus estimates. One article is even prefaced with a statement that says the numbers are bogus (not in those words but anyone intelligent can translate that). You will have extreme stories from the left and the right.
Happy to review your facts on pesticides in Hawaii (or lack thereof)
Per-acre usage of chlorpyrifos and permethrin by the chemical+GMO industry on Kauai was top in the nation by a significant amount
Top in the nation usually - at least for me, means - highest/most.
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