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Pesticide pollution in water is rare, but can be severe: study
Topic Started: 14 Apr 2015, 01:15 AM (8 Views)
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13 April 2015

Pesticide pollution in water is rare, but can be severe: study

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MIAMI (AFP) - A global study of pesticides in streams and waterways released Monday found that such pollution is rare, but when found it exceeded regulatory limits about half the time.

The study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a peer-reviewed US journal, was based on a review of more than 800 studies conducted in 73 countries over the past five decades.

Of the some 2,500 aquatic sites covered, just 2.6 percent of the samples contained measurable levels of insecticides.

Researchers looked for 28 commonly used insecticides representing all major insecticide classes.

"At the sites containing insecticides, 52.4 percent of the detections exceeded regulatory thresholds," said the findings.

The study was led by Sebastian Stehle and Ralf Schulz at the Institute for Environmental Sciences at University Koblenz-Landau in Germany.

"Threshold level exceedances were high even in highly regulated countries and were pronounced for new-generation insecticides."

Researchers warned that the high levels of pesticide contamination they did find "constitutes an excessive threat to aquatic biodiversity," said the study.

"Overall, our analysis suggests that fundamental revisions of current regulatory procedures and pesticide application practices are needed to reverse the global environmental impacts of agrochemical-based high-intensity agriculture."

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