Virtually all of America’s fresh water is tainted with low concentrations of chemical contaminants, according to the new report of an ambitious nationwide study of streams and groundwater conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey.
Pesticides, for example, were detected in 94 percent of all water samples and in 90 percent of fish samples.
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