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December 5, 2006

Scientist says water toxin report ignored

  • One scientist who studies the impact of toxins on fish complains a recent federal report understates the danger of toxins in freshwater lakes around the country.
    • By LAUNCE RAKE
    Las Vegas Sun

    LAKE MEAD NATIONAL RECREATION AREA, Nev. — Something fishy has been confounding scientists for years: Male fish are developing female sexual characteristics in Lake Mead and other freshwater sources around the country.

    The U.S. Geological Survey recently released a four-page summary of more than a decade of studies linking wastewater chemicals to those changes. But a scientist who has studied the issue for years complains the report understated the danger of toxins at Lake Mead and elsewhere.


     
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