Clean drinking water is important for us humans, but unpolluted water is also critically important for diverse aquatic ecosystems. These are important in and of themselves - but also provide "ecosystem services" for us. Mechanistically cleaning/purifying the water before it gets to our taps is important, but what is going in in Iowa and elsewhere with fertilizers, pesticides, and even pharmaceuticals in streams and rivers is a deeper and more important issue.
Money hungry Republican legislators have ‘bought the farm’, hook, line, and sinker. They look at it from their pocket book only, saying, “ hey, I won’t be around when the shit hits the fan, I’ll grab what I can before I leave.”
Water is essential to a healthy life and it is becoming a means to an early death. We need a government that cares about our welfare.
Clean drinking water is important for us humans, but unpolluted water is also critically important for diverse aquatic ecosystems. These are important in and of themselves - but also provide "ecosystem services" for us. Mechanistically cleaning/purifying the water before it gets to our taps is important, but what is going in in Iowa and elsewhere with fertilizers, pesticides, and even pharmaceuticals in streams and rivers is a deeper and more important issue.
Money hungry Republican legislators have ‘bought the farm’, hook, line, and sinker. They look at it from their pocket book only, saying, “ hey, I won’t be around when the shit hits the fan, I’ll grab what I can before I leave.”