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Water Pollution from Factory Farm
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WATER POLLUTION FROM FACTORY FARM Water is one of our most important sources of life. However it seems that humans have not realized how important it is. Factory farming affects rivers, lakes, and coastal waters. The reason for water pollution is that packed manure lagoons drive animal waste into waterways. Farm animals’ manure contains nitrogen and phosphorus that pollute our water. In December 1999, the Izaak League of Nation did a report with the help of the Clean Water Network. This report surveys water pollution caused by factory farms in ten states during 1999,and the violations catalogued in this report demonstrate that the pollution control “technologies” used in factory farms are not working and threaten the environment, specially our waterways. North Carolina was in 1999 the second producer of hog in the United States. Some of the major problems that water pollution in Eastern North Carolina had experience are excessive nutrients in coastal river and estuaries; algal blooms; euthrophication; massive fish kills and outbreaks of the toxic algae Pfiesteria Piscicida.
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