Utilities routinely perform several thousand tests annually to insure safe drinking quality.
Chlorine, a chemical which Greenpeace wants banned, is essential to the purification of water and the manufacture of countless life-saving chemicals. The air in U.S. cities has improved significantly. The banning of DDT has led to a dramatic increase in the mosquito-borne disease of malaria. Insect and rodent pests not only destroy one third of all the world's food each year, but are also the primary vectors of a wide variety of diseases. The United Nations not only banned DDT, but is now trying to ban eleven other pesticides and herbicides.