Seen from this perspective, what we have created, are creating and continue to create out of the landscape that has created and continues to create us contains some disturbing, ah, realities. It is caused by the excessive use of synthesized nitrogen fertilizer used on crops in the Midwest and the lower Mississippi Valley. This, in turn, leads to vast algal blooms which decay and absorb the free oxygen in the water, depriving fish of oxygen. A dead zone the size of New Jersey in our landscape. Nitrates and their breakdown products are linked to cancer and reduced blood-oxygen levels or 'blue baby' syndrome.
Local residents believe that the wastewater is the cause of pollution found in drinking water wells.
This is a good example of one of the problems we face as spreading industrial wastes and treated domestic sewage on the land is increasingly seen as a solution to surface water quality problems. The body repeats the landscape. They are the source of each other and create each other. Thank you for the reminder, Ms. Le Sueur. Express Publishing Inc. All Rights reserved.