The notion that cane toads can
even poison water has been kicking around anecdotally for years but was recently dismissed by one research team as a «myth» because the toads» principal toxic compounds, bufadienolides, aren't water soluble.
Not exact matches
They might
even go so far as to be willing to be taxed so as not to have their
water poisoned.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/01/pennsylvania-gas-drillers-dump-pollution-drinking-
water-supplies/ The fact is, no matter how much we want to use natural gas as a new fuel, or
even a transition fuel, off of oil, the process of extracting it can't be done safely and without consequently
poisoning our
water and ourselves.
Regardless of what you choose to drink your
water from or how you treat it beforehand, many of you are
poisoning your bodies
even worse simply by showering.
Naturally, if you drink too much
water, it can reach levels that are considered poisonous,
even carrying the names «
water poisoning,» «hyperhydration,» and «dilutional hyponatremia.»
This happens when you have food or
water that is not safe because of bacteria, parasites, and
even food
poisoning.
Salt
water is also a no - no, as it can lead to vomiting, diarrhea and dehydration or
even more severe symptoms (salt
poisoning).
If your cat
even laps
water from a tiger lily's vase, she can show signs of
poisoning: fatigue, vomiting, diarrhea and seizures.
However, a little reflection on the plight of the migrant farm workers (life expectancy 49, annual income for a family of four $ 2,400,
poisoning from pesticide in 15 of every 100 workers, death from T.B. and other infectious diseases 260 percent higher than the national average, infant and maternal mortality 125 percent higher, and not
even toilets or drinking
water in the fields) makes one reluctant to head for the comfort of the car and home.
The dog could suffer like this for hours or
even days without food or
water, others were killed by strangulation, bludgeoning, and
even cyanide
poisoning.
As we watch the sun go down,
evening after
evening, through the smog across the
poisoned waters of our native earth, we must ask ourselves seriously whether we really wish some future universal historian on another planet to say about us: «With all their genius and with all their skill, they ran out of foresight and air and food and
water and ideas,» or, «They went on playing politics until their world collapsed around them.»
Without federal standards to safeguard our
water, those plants will keep on sending toxic sludge into rivers and streams, where it threatens swimmers and boaters and anglers,
poisons wildlife, wrecks ecosystems, and could
even contaminate drinking
water.
«As we watch the sun go down,
evening after
evening, through the smog across the
poisoned waters of our native earth, we must ask ourselves seriously whether we really wish some future universal historian on another planet to say about us: «With all their skill, they ran out of foresight and air and food and
water and ideas,» or, «They went on playing politics until their world collapsed around them.»»
The state has over $ 5 billion invested in companies that frack —
poisoning our
water, destroying our lands —
even though fracking is banned across the state.
These banks are just as guilty as the pipeline companies of ignoring the strong and widespread Indigenous opposition to these projects which will
poison our
water and cause
even more climate chaos.»
Like the fact that the US did a great deal to
poison the Copenhagen
waters, and that, going forward, it may do
even more.