Sprawl matters or The region's rivers are clearly in trouble #2

Last month, while trolling through various Post Extra sections around the region I came across four or five different stories all calling attention to environmental problems with rivers in the region. These same rivers are our primary sources of drinking water. I wrote it up in this blog entry, "The region's rivers are clearly in trouble."

Today's front page has an even scarier story, "Male Bass Across Region Found to Be Bearing Eggs," subtitled "Pollution Concerns Arise In Drinking-Water Source."

Now I know that for years Monsanto advertised, "without chemicals life itself would be impossible," but this quote from the story:

Jacobus, like others at area utilities, said there was no evidence that tap water taken from the Potomac was unsafe to drink. They said humans should be far less susceptible to the river's pollution than fish, because people are not exposed constantly to the water, our hormone systems work differently, and our larger bodies should require higher doses of any pollutant to cause problems[.]

doesn't make me feel any better.

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