Farming for the FutureResources: INDUSTRIAL ANIMAL PRODUCTION - ENVIRONMENT Water Quality | Livestock Waste These references are listed by date, most current first. If no date was available, the references are listed at the end of the section. WATER QUALITY
Investigation of the Chemical and Microbial Constituents of Ground and Surface Water Proximal to Large-Scale Swine Operations
"Report to the State of Iowa Department of Public Health (October-December 1998)As a direct follow-up to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) workshop on public health issues related to concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs), an investigation into the chemical and microbial constituents of ground and surface water proximal to large-scale swine operations was conducted in Iowa. The goal of this study was to obtain a broad profile of the chemical and microbial constituents of both ground and surface water that were potentially hazardous to human health."
Pouring It On: Nitrate Contamination of Drinking Water
"Over twelve million people in the United States drink water from nearly 1,000 water systems where some or all of the drinking water supply is contaminated by nitrate at levels above the EPA's 10 ppm standard." (Environmental Working Group, February 22, 1996) 
LIVESTOCK WASTE
Fifth of Farm Animal Breeds May Face Extinction - FAO
"About 20 percent of farm animal breeds have been brought to the brink of extinction as world agriculture narrows its focus to just the most productive livestock, the United Nation food body said"
Cesspools of Shame: How Factory Farm Lagoons and Sprayfields Threaten Environmental and Public Health
"This July 2001 report from Natural Resources Defense Council and the Clean Water Network documents how animal waste from factory farms threatens human health and our nation's rivers. Most factory farms store animal waste in open lagoons as large as several football fields…" 67 pages.
Generic Environmental Impact Statement on Animal Agriculture: A summary of the literature related to manure and crop nutrients
Prepared for the Minnesota Environmental Quality Board 1999, 143 Pages.
Animal Waste Management and the Environment: Background for Current Issues Congressional Research Service Report by Claudia Copeland and Jeffrey Zinn May 12, 1998
"Waste from animal agriculture is an increasingly prominent environmental quality issue. This background report describes the livestock production industry' today along with public health and environmental concerns related to the industry. It summarizes policies and programs of the USDA, EPA…."
America's Animal Factories: How States Fail to Prevent Pollution from Livestock Waste
December 1998 report published by the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Clean Water Network. The report examines the environmental and health consequences of pollution from industrial livestock farms in 30 states, as well as the widely varying efforts to curtail it.
Factory Farming: Toxic Waste and Fertilizer in the United States
The report by Environmental Working Group lists, for each state, the polluting industries that shipped the most toxic wastes containing dioxin, lead, mercury 'recycled' as fertilizer and the fertilizer companies that received the most. 1998.
Animal Waste Pollution in America: An Emerging National problem; Environmental Risks Of Livestock & Poultry Production
December, 1997, Report Compiled by the Minority Staff of the United States Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, & Forestry.
The Potential Impact of Flooding on Confined Animal Feeding Operations in Eastern North Carolina
Steve Wing,1 Stephanie Freedman,1 and Lawrence Band 2 1Department of Epidemiology and 2Department of Geography, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA. Thousands of confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs) have been constructed in eastern North Carolina. The fecal waste pit and spray field waste management systems used by these operations are susceptible to flooding in this low-lying region.
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