I thought liberal ecoweenies had pollution licked.
What happened?
Never let a perfectly good crisis go to waste.
Russian prostitutes peed in the water, obviously.
distill rain water
of course I can’t do this in God-forsaken Virginia
but it is a good idea for everyone else.
Trump’s fault!
I don’t drink water. Fish do dirty things in it.
Small amounts of cyanotoxins were found in the Detroit Reservoir on Tuesday, deriving from algae bloom in Detroit Lake that have appeared in water sources throughout the Pacific Northwest. caused by not letting the water flow. Water becomes stagnate!
This is a nightmare. A few years back there was such a bloom in lake Erie I check with the people at Berkey Filters and they said at that time even their filter was not able to filter out such toxin
Cyanobacteria
Harmful algal blooms in freshwater lakes and rivers, or at estuaries, where rivers flow into the ocean, are caused by cyanobacteria, also known as “blue-green algae”.[7] They can produce hazardous toxins, such as microcystins,[8] a neurotoxin which destroys nerve tissue of mammals.[9] In high enough concentrations, water treatment plants may be unable to remove the toxin and will advise residents to avoid drinking tap water, as happened in Toledo, Ohio in August 2014.[10]
They also cause harm by blocking the sunlight or by using up the oxygen needed by fish or plant life, which can lead to fish die-offs.[5] When such oxygen-depleted water covers a large area for an extended period of time, it can become hypoxic, commonly called a dead zone. These dead zones can be the result of numerous different factors ranging from natural phenomenon to deliberate human interaction. These dead zones are not just limited to large bodies of fresh water as found in the great lakes, but are also prone to bodies of salt water as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmful_algal_bloom
I thought Oregon was just one big safe space full of vegetables and bicycles.....
How can any water coming from a lake called Lake Detroit be bad?
I wonder if this explains their recent insanity?
When I was a kid, we were all going to be eating algae in the future. It’s scientific, don’t you know.
A friend's dog jumped into a lake rimmed with blue green algae this spring and the dog had to be IMMEDIATELY taken to the vet. The dog suffered some damage even with the brief exposure.
Even small exposures (as little as 1-2 licks), can potentially result in fatal poisoning! A vet writes at the link below that a dog that had never been out to a lake, ended up dying of liver failure. The cause? The owners left a used, old, empty fish tank out on the deck. Over months, it accumulated rain water. One day, the dog drank out of this moldy, algae-filled tank, and unfortunately was accidentally poisoned by blue-green algae.
It must be Trump and Republicans fault! That is what we were told in Flint Michigan when they had toxic water!
OMG, not in a Democratic state. Make sure the media does the same thing they did to the Governor of Michigan who fell victim to a lackluster Mayor and City Council who knew their water system was failing and did nothing.
Maybe the Governor could just issue an executive order for the algae not to bloom.
Farmers along the Klamath River in southern Oregon have had a long history of water rights disputes favoring the Indians under the “first in time, first in right” doctrine. Water shut-offs left farmland fallow, flows so low they caused a mass fish die-off, recurring toxic algae blooms that fouled reservoirs, and salmon population declines that closed 700 miles of coastline to fishing. Could this similar situation be happening all over the state?