[TN-Butterflies] Fw: PBS airing "Poisoned Waters" Documentary
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- Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 09:04:12 -0500
Something that should interest all of us - our water supply.
Nancy Garden
Director of Education
Owl's Hill Nature Sanctuary
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Subject: FW: PBS airing "Poisoned Waters" Documentary
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To: George Garden
Subject: PBS airing "Poisoned Waters" Documentary
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WEF Member Advisory:
PBS Frontline Program Examines Newest Health
Hazards in Nation's Contaminated Waterways
The Public Broadcasting Service's (PBS) FRONTLINE
program is airing a documentary titled "Poisoned Waters" on Tuesday, April 21,
2009, from 9:00-11 p.m. EST (check local PBS listings). According to the PBS
press release, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Hedrick Smith examines what
are described as "growing hazards to human health and the ecosystem". Through
interviews with scientists, environmental activists, corporate executives and
average citizens impacted by water quality problems, Smith reveals "startling
new evidence that today's growing environmental threat comes not from the giant
industrial polluters of old, but from chemicals in consumers' face creams,
deodorants, prescription medicines and household cleaners that find their way
into sewers, storm drains, and eventually into America's waterways and drinking
water".
In "Poisoned Waters", Smith speaks with
researchers from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), who report finding
genetically mutated marine life in the Potomac River. In addition to finding
frogs with six legs and other mutations, the researchers explain that they have
found male amphibians with ovaries and female frogs with male genitalia.
Scientists tell FRONTLINE that the mutations are "likely caused by exposure to
'endocrine disruptors', chemical compounds that mimic the body's natural
hormones". FRONTLINE reports that the "USGS research on the Potomac River poses
some troubling questions for the 2 million people who rely on the Washington
Aqueduct for their drinking water".
The Water Environment Federation (WEF) is
encouraging its members to watch the program in anticipation of increased
public interest in the water quality issues that are highlighted. As you know,
the issue of pharmaceuticals in water supplies has been a hot topic in the
media following a series of articles from the Associated Press (AP) that were
published last year. The articles prompted an oversight hearing by the U.S.
Subcommittee on Transportation Safety, Infrastructure Security, and Water
Quality titled "Pharmaceuticals in the Nation's Water: Assessing Potential
Risks and Actions to Address the Issue," that was led by Senator Barbara Boxer
(D-Calif.). On Sunday, April 19, 2009, the AP published an article about
pharmaceutical companies dumping drugs into wastewater that cited a USGS study
on the topic.
For more information about the "Poisoned Waters"
documentary, visit: www.pbs.org/frontline/poisonedwaters.
To read the Associated Press article, "Factories
dumping drugs into sewage" (4/19/09), visit:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30267705/.
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