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The Toledo Water Ban: More Money, More Chemicals, More Problems

Vermont Law

Summary: The city of Toledo, Ohio issued a water ban on August 2–3, 2014 after a local treatment plant found unsafe levels of microcystin, a type of harmful algal bloom known to cause health defects and even death when ingested. Due to the amount of unregulated agriculture in Ohio, phosphorus and other nutrients that runoff into Lake Erie create these algal blooms.

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