What Toledo’s Water Crisis Reveals About Industrial Farming
What Toledo’s Water Crisis Reveals About Industrial Farming By Doug Gurian-Sherman on August 5, 2014 As you may have heard, about half a million people in the Toledo, Ohio area lost their municipal drinking water supply on Saturday because of possible microbial toxin contamination from Lake Erie. A combination of heavier spring rains, exacerbated by climate change, and runoff of phosphorus from fertilizer applied to crops is the likely cause. The good news is that farmers can adopt better ...[READ MORE]