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How Can We Protect Our Water?

How can we protect our water supply from animal agriculture?

  • I'm doing a report for school and I need some sites that tell me how we can help prevent the contamination of our water by animal agriculture. I already found websites that ...show more

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    Look up the CAFO and AFO rules on the USDA website. You'll find pages and pages and pages of rules and reguations costing billions of dollars. www.usda.gov and search CAFO or AFO. Ironically, cow poop is now far more regulated than human sewage. Cow manure is now a hazardous material while raw human sewage is not. Humans are far more apt to catch a serious disease from human poop than from cow poop.

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there are so many restrictions on farmers/producers that 'contaminating' public water supply is practically a non-issue go to www.usda.gov read about all theprograms out there governing how farmers/producers must handle waste. Not to say we all follow those rules, but the majority do.

k h

Animal agriculture is no worse for our water supply than wildlife unless they are severely confined. And sure no worse than the Buffalo were. If this is an assignment your instructor is way off base. Better check him out and don't beleive everything he says.

rofe

ngwa.org

Scott

Concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOS) are the biggest polluters.

hwinnum

Fence livestock from water bodies, flank the water with forested buffers, dispose of manure properly, drill (rather than dig) wells.

oikos

quit pooping in the water

lumishermanbaby

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