Rural Effluent Treatment Plants for Pesticide Safety

The Oakland Tribune reports on January 24 2006, that chemical mixtures are more toxic than individual products. (Retrieved on date from):
http://www.insidebayarea.com/oaklandtribune/localnews/ci_3434179

This is a special hazard for rural communities whose aquifers are contaminated by a variety of pesticides used by individual farmers.

Plants for flocculation, chemical neutralization and microbial degradation can protect communities that live around farms where chemical agriculture is practiced. Microbes are specific to compounds, so farmers would need to log and regulate their sprays for the system to work. That is tough to implement, but the alternative of chronic human toxicity is unacceptable.