Posted on 13/12/04
Bacteria enlisted to gobble water toxins
How do you get rid of the most common toxic contaminants in the ground water of the industrialized world?Until recently, you didn't. Dumped in open waste pits for decades and left to evaporate (instead of being safely recycled, as they mainly are now), these chlorine-based chemicals sank beneath the ground, collected in toxic blobs and then seeped into the water table to persist for centuries.
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