Forterra Environmental Corp FEVCF

Pesticides not the only concern

[Wylle]

Synthetic Fertilizers are now following suit of pesticides and herbicides. 95% of private wells in Iowa are contaminated with Nitrogen. The latest issue of Canadian Water Treatment says that Lake Simcoe is losing all its cold water fish from Phosphorus contamination. It will only be time before synthetic fertiizers are banned also.

[staolin]

Unfortunately the problem of leaching nutrients from fields, lawns and gardens into water sources has been brought on by the invention of synthetic fertilizer. But very little is still being done or enforced in order to mitigate the problem. Society is as addicted to the cheap fertilizers as it is to gasoline. It will be time before the public is induced into a frenzy by well deserved media