Sludge Watch ==> USGS Hosts National Conference on Human Health Related Research

[Maureen Reilly]

Sludgewatch Admin:

Sewage Treatment plants are the number one source of surface water pollution 
in Canada.
This turn of the century technology is extremely ineffective at keeping our 
water clean.

It hardly makes sense to run urban industrial liquid waste together with 
hospital and domestic sanitary sewage and push it through a pipe with 
precious potable water.  It creates sludge residues that are problematic, 
and sewage effluent that runs into rivers, lakes and oceans contaminating 
them with pathogens, drugs, hormones, and industrial chemicals.

Over the years the EPA has dropped the ball.  They have failed to make good 
on the promises of swimable fishable waters that were made in the Clean 
Water Act.  Their mismanagement and lack of oversite of wastewater and 
sludge is an international scandal.

This conference by the US Geological Survey appears to take up the reins.
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http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=1626

Media Advisory:

USGS Hosts National Conference on Human Health-Related Research
2/22/2007

Contact Information:
U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey
Office of Communication
119 National Center
Reston, VA 20192 Brenda Pierce - bpierce at usgs.gov
Phone: 703-648-6421

Jessica Robertson - jrobertson at usgs.gov
Phone: 703 -648-6624




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What:               The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is hosting the 2nd 
Earth Science and Public Health Meeting

Topic:               Public Health Problems from Environmental Contamination 
and Infectious Diseases

Where:            USGS National Center 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, Reston, 
Va.

When:             February 27-March 1, 2007

The USGS 2nd Earth Science and Public Health Meeting will foster 
collaboration between the public health and earth science communities to 
discuss and find solutions to existing and emerging environmental health 
problems. Scientists will discuss public health threats affected by the 
relationship between people and the physical, chemical and biological nature 
of our natural environments.

"The USGS is the Nation's natural science agency and plays a significant 
role in providing unbiased, interdisciplinary scientific information to help 
understand environmental contributions to diseases and human health," said 
USGS Energy Resources Program Coordinator Brenda Pierce. "Understanding 
environmental contributions to emerging infectious diseases and other 
health-related issues is necessary in protecting public health."

This meeting will focus on potential contaminants and pathogens in air, 
dusts and soils; drinking water exposure to chemical and pathogenic 
contaminants; human consumption of contaminants that accumulate in the food 
chain; pathogen exposure through recreational waters; vector-borne and 
zoonotic diseases; and animals as indicators for potential threats to human 
health.

Highlights will include keynote speakers Catherine Skinner of Yale 
University and Jose Centeno of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, as 
well as a number of scientific and technical talks and poster sessions by 
USGS staff and other federal and state agencies, universities, the health 
community and nongovernmental organizations.

For more information on this meeting and USGS human health-related 
activities, visit http://health.usgs.gov/.




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